Denym
#2,965 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Denym has been given to 774 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #2,965 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 56 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.
Babies named Denym, 2025
1 in 59,200
Denym 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Denym over time
In 2025, Denym went to 53% girls and 47% 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 Denym?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 59,200
- 56 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 28,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,965
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 41,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Denym 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denym. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Denyms were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Denym was born before 2020 — so the typical Denym is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 431
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (234).
Is Denym 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
- +387
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,233
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,122
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (56)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Denym
Denym is not the most common spelling — Dena is, with 36.3% against Denym's 0.48%.
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 Denym is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Denym was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 443,582 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Mississippi1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Denym has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Denym is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Denym was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 354,148 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Denym has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Denym by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Denym
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Denym
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.