Declen

#12,473 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Declen has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #12,473 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Declen, 2025

1 in 663,000

Declen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Declen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,473
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Declen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Declen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Declens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Declen was born before 2016 — so the typical Declen is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 75.6% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Declen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,301
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,172
2015

Spellings of Declen

Declen is not the most common spelling — Declan is, with 51.6% against Declen's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Declen around the world

Where Declen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #401
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Declen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,473
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8
Best rank ever
#7,172
2015
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Declen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Declen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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