Denim
#880 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Denim has been given to 3,843 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #880 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 271 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Denim, 2025
1 in 12,200
Denim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Denim over time
In 2025, Denim went to 27% girls and 73% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Denim?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 12,200
- 271 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 6,300
- 0.02% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #880
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 8,480 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Denim 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 8,480 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Denims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Denim was born before 2017 — so the typical Denim is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,721
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (1,053).
Is Denim 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
- +227
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +536
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +746
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.77×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (271)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.7% average annual change
Spellings of Denim
Denim is not the most common spelling — Dennis is, with 73.3% against Denim's 0.32%.
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 Denim is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Denim was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,299 boys, against 1 in 8,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 25,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 1,299
- 2Maryland1 in 3,704
- 3Georgia1 in 3,846
- 4Illinois1 in 6,250
- 5Missouri1 in 6,667
- 6District of Columbia1 in 7,143
- 7South Carolina1 in 7,692
- 8Florida1 in 8,333
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.
Where Denim is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Denim was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 25,130 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 2,703
- 2District of Columbia1 in 5,556
- 3Maryland1 in 9,091
- 4Georgia1 in 11,111
- 5Ohio1 in 20,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
- 7Texas1 in 25,000
- 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.
Denim around the world
Where Denim 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- Scotland2008–2008#638in 2008
- South Australia1985–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Denim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Denim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Denim
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Denim, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Denim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.