Deniz
About 2,122 American babies have been named Deniz since 1961, most of them around 2019. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,604th. About 2,100 Denizes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Deniz
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Deniz crossed from girls to boys in 2002, and has stayed there for 18 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% boys, and in 2025 it was 72%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 37 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,122
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 2,339th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,604th
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 910 / 1,212
How old the living Denizes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,122 babies given the name since 1961, about 2,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Denizs
- Deniz Undav (born 1996)German association football player
- Deniz Baykal (1938–2023)Turkish attorney and statesperson
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven (born 1978)Turkish-French film director
- Deniz Çakır (born 1981)Turkish actor
- Deniz Aytekin (born 1978)Turkish association football referee
- Deniz Gezmiş (1947–1972)Turkish political activist
- Deniz Gül (born 2004)Turkish association football player
- Deniz Baysal (born 1991)Turkish actor
People named Deniz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Deniz is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Deniz is most concentrated in New York (5.0×), Florida (3.9×), New Jersey (3.4×), California (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Deniz peaked:
Deniz elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Deniz +1 spelling | 1,420 | 894th |
| England and Wales boys | Deniz | 1,301 | 554th |
| France girls | Deniz +1 spelling | 735 | 823rd |
| Switzerland boys | Deniz | 716 | 199th |
| Belgium boys | Deniz | 604 | 328th |
| England and Wales girls | Deniz | 254 | 2,120th |
| Poland boys | Deniz +1 spelling | 169 birth registrations | 249th |
| Belgium girls | Deniz | 102 | 597th |
| Ireland boys | Deniz | 16 | 611th |
| Scotland boys | Deniz | 3 | 648th |
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.
Deniz: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Deniz | 630 | 0.051% | 163rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Deniz | 79 | 0.018% | 278th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Deniz | 7 | 0.011% | 128th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Deniz is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.18% of children were given it – 68 of them.
Deniz: rank by region
In 2025, Deniz was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Deniz | 464 | 12 |
| Brussels | Deniz | 187 | 7 |
In 2025, Deniz was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Deniz | 248 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Deniz appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Brussels-Capital Region (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Deniz by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 117 | 152nd |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Deniz among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Deniz | 118 | 183 |
| Finland girls | Deniz | 39 | 57 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Deniz 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.