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I have loved this name ever since I was a little boy. Deanna, "dee-ANN-nuh;" this is truly one of the sweetest, light, and airy names that I know. Personally, the name Deanna reminds me of strawberries (my favorite fruit), and fresh ones. I'd without a doubt call a daughter of mine Deanna, even though my mom has a cousin Diane!
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Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who is the ship's councilor on the Enterprise D and a Betazoid who possesses the empathic ability to sense the emotions of others.
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I really like this pronounced dee-AN-a, but if you're gonna pronounce DEEH-na, just use Dina.
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Deanna Michaux is an American journalist, nationally syndicated columnist, author and radio host. Michaux is the author of the advice column and radio show "Ask Deanna!".
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Deanna Stellato-Dudek is an American pair skater who currently competes with Maxime Deschamps for Canada. With Deschamps, she is the 2022 Grand Prix de France champion, 2022 Skate America silver medalist, 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy champion, and 2023 Canadian national champion.
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I really like the name. I think its really pretty.
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Just letting you know, Deanna Durbin died in 2013, so you might want to update her life dates in the entry. [noted -ed]
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My name is Deanna. It is a feminine name and rare. It is a variant of the name Diana, which means divine. Throughout my life, people have always said my name wrong or misspelled it. I don’t know why people say it’s an ugly name, because it isn’t. I actually have known three Deanna’s, and they were all nice.
Everyone having different names is what makes life interesting.
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Everyone having different names is what makes life interesting.
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I love this name! Reminds me of Deanna Troi from Star Trek Next Generation. Love the name.
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I like this name, I personally prefer it to Dianna, Deanna is a lovely name.
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This name is really pretty, but I don't think I could use it, sadly. I prefer "Dee-AN-uh" much more to "Dee-nuh" which I would spell Deana or Deena.
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I prefer Diana, but Deanna's nice too, I guess.
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This is "Dee-AN-uh" NOT "Dee-nuh"...Deanna is a very pretty name, and I like it very much.
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This name makes me think of a toaster. Probably because Deanna Oliver played Toaster in The Brave Little Toaster.
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I'm not sure why I've never liked this name. It just sounds like someone you would meet in a trailer park. She would probably have a brother named Dylan. Diana is better and a lot more classy.
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This is my mother’s name, so it proves it describes a woman who cares a lot and is super kind and pretty.
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I spelled my daughter's name DeAnna, then they won’t mistake it for sounding like Deena.
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Famous bearer: Deanna Mustard.
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A boring name for a girl with no personality. It's just the female version of Dean.
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In 2018, 40 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Deanna who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 416th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
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Deanna Lee Criswell, known as "Jane Doe 19" while unidentified, was a sixteen-year-old American girl who was found murdered on November 25, 1987 in Marana, Arizona.
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I have sometimes seen this name spelled as DeAnna, with the letter 'A' capitalized. Thus used, I think it could be considered a variant form or elaboration of the name Anna, using the popular name prefix 'De'. DeAnna would then have a different origin from the ones given for Deanna here.
It could also, as described by a previous commentor, be used as a variant form of Anna regardless of whether or not the A is capitalized, giving this name a third origin/use.
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It could also, as described by a previous commentor, be used as a variant form of Anna regardless of whether or not the A is capitalized, giving this name a third origin/use.
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A beautiful name. I like Deana with one n better though.
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The name Deanna was given to 207 girls born in the US in 2015.
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This is my name; I used to think it was plain, uninteresting. But as I've gotten a bit older it has grown on me. It's extremely rare where I live, no one else has it. And it has a simple elegance to it.
It's origins aren't anything special, but I don't believe the whole "bastardized feminine form of 'Dean'" at all (very rude by the way). I think it sounds much closer to "Diana"; only with a "De" instead of "Di". In fact, if you listen to the way Germans (and probably others) pronounce "Diana", it sounds a LOT like "Deanna".
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It's origins aren't anything special, but I don't believe the whole "bastardized feminine form of 'Dean'" at all (very rude by the way). I think it sounds much closer to "Diana"; only with a "De" instead of "Di". In fact, if you listen to the way Germans (and probably others) pronounce "Diana", it sounds a LOT like "Deanna".
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I'm another Deanna. My grandmother's name was Anna and my parents wanted to find a name similar to honour her but didn't like Diana so made it "dee" anna instead. As a child I went by DeeDee and would be quite annoyed if people tried to call me Deanna. Although I was more annoyed if people called me Dianna or spelled it with an "i". I still use Dee with my family and friends but I love my name and that it includes my grandma's name as part of it.
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Wow, seeing lots of comments about Deanna being pronounced "Dee-na" or "Dee-AN-ah"! I've met a few Deannas (including myself) but I've never met anyone who pronounces their name this way. Honestly, I hate when people pronounce my name like that, it sounds so fingernails-down-chalkboard-y. But it makes sense now why so many people have read my name out that way! For me and the Deanna's I know, our name is pronounced "Dee-AHH-nah" (like how you pronounce the character Anna's name from Frozen, but with a "De" before it).
My Nonna still spells it "Diana", because "Deanna" is (according the Italians I know) the phonetic spelling of "Diana"; In a lot of European countries "Diana" is pronounced "De-UHN-nah". So "Deanna" was, apparently, supposed to be the phonetic spelling of it to help people pronounce Diana "right". Looks like that backfired! Even I don't pronounce it "correctly" haha. I like the name even though it's always mispronounced, I usually go by "Dee" anyway.
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My Nonna still spells it "Diana", because "Deanna" is (according the Italians I know) the phonetic spelling of "Diana"; In a lot of European countries "Diana" is pronounced "De-UHN-nah". So "Deanna" was, apparently, supposed to be the phonetic spelling of it to help people pronounce Diana "right". Looks like that backfired! Even I don't pronounce it "correctly" haha. I like the name even though it's always mispronounced, I usually go by "Dee" anyway.
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My name is Deanna (DEE ANNA)and I struggled my whole life with people mispronouncing it (DE-NA, DIANA, DIANE) so I go by Dee now. I even thought about changing it legally because I don't even relate to Deanna anymore, and only notice people when they call me Dee. BUT my mom named me so she would be hurt if I did.
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I like it. Reminds me of a sweet blue eyed, blonde hair southern belle. Just very pretty.
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My mother's name is Deanna (pronounced dee-AN-ə), and I always loved the name (she is my mother, after all). People who would call the house would often mispronounce it DEEN-ə, and I always thought that was a horrible sounding pronunciation, although I suppose if you are using it as a feminized version of Dean, you would pronounce it that way. I always thought of it as a form of Diana, and I also thought it sounded like a very southern name. I think it is a very beautiful name.
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My name is Deanna & I agree with all the others, people do say it incorrectly. Also I have never met anyone in my whole life who pronounces it the same.
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I hate this name. It's either a horrible bastardization of the divine name Diana, or a blatantly obvious feminization of Dean.
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At first glance, I thought that Deanna was a combination of the prefix De- and the suffix -anna. Not a good first impression. Now, however, I see the name as okay. It's nothing gorgeous, but it's not particularly ugly.
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I find my name mediocre. The only other Deanna's I've met haven't been awful, but they've all definitely been boring. I've always seen it as 'anna' with a 'de' prefix, not a variant of Diana. The etymology of this name reads 'chief of ten' which is very absurd and senseless to me.
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Also. I hate when it's written 'DeAnna', like an Italian or Spanish last name.
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Deanna, a song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from the album Tender Prey.
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I've only recently thought about this name, because I knew a girl in elementary school from Bosnia. Her name was Dejana, and she pronounced it dee-AN-uh, like this name. (By the way, to those pronouncing this "DEE-nuh"--that's how you pronounce Dina. And possibly Deana. But Deanna, with two n's, is dee-AN-uh.)
Anyway, I had always thought Dejana sounded pretty, and it has a great meaning ("to act"), but since I'm not Slavic, I wouldn't use that spelling for my daughter. I much prefer the way Deanna looks, but I don't think of it as a feminine form of Dean, but a variant of Dejana. (That may not be what it is etymologically, but it's how I think of it.)
In my experience, Deanna is not a very common name. However, all of the Deanna's (with this spelling) I know are Italian. And as it is, the names I really like right now are Deanna and Theresa. Wow, I'm more Italian than I thought. Lol.
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Anyway, I had always thought Dejana sounded pretty, and it has a great meaning ("to act"), but since I'm not Slavic, I wouldn't use that spelling for my daughter. I much prefer the way Deanna looks, but I don't think of it as a feminine form of Dean, but a variant of Dejana. (That may not be what it is etymologically, but it's how I think of it.)
In my experience, Deanna is not a very common name. However, all of the Deanna's (with this spelling) I know are Italian. And as it is, the names I really like right now are Deanna and Theresa. Wow, I'm more Italian than I thought. Lol.
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Deanna is Greek for girl of the valley.
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My name is Deanna and I love it. I actually got it because my dad's name was Dean and my mom's name is Anna. (: I'm actually pretty proud of my name. (:
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My name is Deanna and I love it! No one else I know has that name! It's INCREDIBLY rare! And it's a royal name, just to tell you.
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I love the name Deanna. It's really pretty and elegant.
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I know a girl whose name is D'Anna (pronounced DE-ANNA). Obviously a variant of this name.
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This is a pretty name. Dee-na is both cute and sophisticated. But to a degree I have to admit it's another name that ends in "a". I think DeeAnn is a pretty name, too. But the fact that it's not an overly used name is a breath of fresh air.
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While slight night shiver doesn't have to be so rude about it, I do agree with them on some level. Deanna is my name, and I've never really cared for it. I prefer to go by Anna instead.
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Yawn. This seems like a lazily constructed name, and it's very common by now, so it's not original in any way. It's not particularly pretty, and it doesn't sound very classy or sophisticated either.
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Such a gorgeous name!
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I know someone called this who pronounces it Dee-na, and was utterly confused when I saw her name written down. Looks like Dee-anna to me.
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Deanna is a pretty name, what turns me away from this name is someone I know with this name, I seriously think something is wrong with her.
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I love this name! It is so beautiful and not overused.
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One of my oldest friends names is Deanna, pronounced "Dee-na".
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Deanna is a beautiful name and I pronounce it DeAnna.
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I believe it can also be Polish when pronounced "dee-AH-nah." (According to my Polish friend.)
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My sister's name is Deanna, and it is pronounced dee-anna. I've read that Deanna means divine.
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My name is Deanna, and I pronounce it Dee-ANNA, like the name Anna with a De- in front of it. "Deana" is a totally different name.
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Deanna Troy was a character on Star Trek. I was named after her!
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Deanna was made famous by Canadian-born actress and singer Deanna Durbin.
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