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Denym

Denym is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 2,957th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,957th. About 770 Denyms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Denym boys named Denym

Girls and boys called Denym

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 431 girls and 343 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 56 to 49.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 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
774
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
5
Peak year
2025
Best rank
2,957th
Rank in 2025
2,957th
First recorded
2002
Girls / boys
431 / 343

How old the living Denyms are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 774 babies given the name since 2002, about 770 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 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.

Where Denym is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Denym is most concentrated in Louisiana (25.8×), Texas (4.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Denym peaked:

All the names of 2025

Related names

Denym 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.