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Denine vs Denver

American parents have registered 23,413 Denvers since 1880, against 963 Denines. Denver is still ahead, with 904 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Denine against Denver, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Denine Denver

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 135 years in which either name was published, Denver for 133 years and Denine for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Denine Denver
Total US births 96323,413
Most in one year 133995
Babies in 2025 under 5904
Estimated living today 87017,000
Median age today 5812
Peak year 19642022
Best rank 904th girls479th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked518th
First recorded 19491880
Girls / boys 963 / 04,235 / 19,178

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Denines alive today are over 58; half the Denvers are over 12. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Denine and Denver.