Dencil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dencil has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1947, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Dencil, 1977
1 in 635,000
Dencil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dencil?
Dencil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 635,000
- 5 of 3,176,294 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 329,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 440,329 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dencil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 440,329 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dencil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dencils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dencil was born before 1935 — so the typical Dencil is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 29.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (81).
Is Dencil 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1947 (13)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dencil
Dencil is not the most common spelling — Dennis is, with 80.2% against Dencil's 0.04%.
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 Dencil is used
Across 1910–2025, Dencil was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 49,777 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1West Virginia1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dencil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dencil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dencil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dencil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.