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Deneen

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deneen has been given to 3,610 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1964, with 1,604 recorded.

Babies named Deneen, 2007

1 in 800,000

Deneen over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deneen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deneen means

Deneen is a given name.

The naming story behind Deneen

Wikidata records Deneen as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q132192868, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,603 girls were recorded with the name Deneen between 1947 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 1,604 in 1964; its best national rank was #216 in 1964.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Deneen between 1964 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1964; its best national rank was #3,355 in 1964.

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.

How common is Deneen?

Deneen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deneen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deneen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deneens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deneen was born before 1964 — so the typical Deneen is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
76.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,597
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 76.1% of all recorded uses (2,741).

Is Deneen 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 1964 (1,604)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#216
1964

Deneen’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1964, 1,604 girls were named Deneen — about #216 that year — roughly 11.1× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Deneen

Deneen is not the most common spelling — Renee is, with 69.9% against Deneen's 1.4%.

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 Deneen is used

Across 1910–2025, Deneen was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 57,564 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 16,667
  2. 2Maryland1 in 16,667
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 20,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  5. 5Delaware1 in 25,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 33,333
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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. Deneen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deneen around the world

Where Deneen 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.

  • South Australia
    1979–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deneen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#216
1964
Peak year
1964
1,604 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
3,603
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,355
1964
Peak year
1964
7 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deneen

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

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Names with a curve like Deneen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deneen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Deneen

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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