Denilson
Denilson reached its high-water mark in 2002 at number 1,792, and has been recorded 731 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 720 Denilsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Denilson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 731
- Estimated living today
- 720
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 1,792nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1997
How old the living Denilsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 731 babies given the name since 1997, about 720 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Denilsons
- Denílson de Oliveira (born 1977)Brazilian footballer
- Denílson Pereira Neves (born 1988)Brazilian footballer
- Denílson Antônio Paludo (born 1972)Brazilian association football player
- Denílson Custódio Machado (1943–2024)Brazilian footballer and manager
- Denilson Martins Nascimento (born 1976)Brazilian footballer and manager
People named Denilson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Denilson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Denilson is most concentrated in California (5.0×), Texas (2.6×), New York (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular boys’ names the year Denilson peaked:
Denilson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Denilson | 170 | 1,010th |
| England and Wales boys | Denilson | 16 | 2,425th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Denilson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.