Denae
#15,498 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Denae has been given to 2,569 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #15,498 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Denae, 2025
1 in 663,000
Denae over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Denae?
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 girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,498
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Denae sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Denaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Denae was born before 1992 — so the typical Denae is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,569
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (673).
Is Denae 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
- −5,763
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,401
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.42×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.2%
- Peak was 1997 (81)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Denae
Denae is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 27.8% against Denae's 0.19%.
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.
Where Denae is used
Across 1910–2025, Denae was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 139,688 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Maryland1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Minnesota1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Denae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Denae around the world
Where Denae 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 & Wales2001–2013#5,742in 2013
- Canada1992–2014#2,839in 2014
- South Australia1976–2005#517in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Denae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Denae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Denae
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Denae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Denae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.