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Den

Boys' name

Follower of (the wine god) Dionysus, through Dennis

Den has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1942. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1942, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Den, 1958

1 in 827,000

Den 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Den: meaning, origin, and history

Follower of (the wine god) Dionysus, through Dennis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Den means

Den belongs to the name family reached through Den → Dennis. Its meaning is “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.

Origin, language, and formation

Den is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dennis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Den between 1942 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1942; its best national rank was #3,296 in 1942.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Den?

Den had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958
1 in 827,000
5 of 4,133,550 births
Among boys only
1 in 424,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1958
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
573,033 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Den 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 1958 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 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Den. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Den was born before 1949 — so the typical Den is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1940s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Den 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1942 (6)
Years since peak
83
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,296
1942

Den around the world

Where Den 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1999–2021
    #5,456
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–1992
    #1,136
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #373
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Den by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,296
1942
Peak year
1942
6 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
1958
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Den

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

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Sibling names for Den

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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