Denzell
#6,899 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Denzell has been given to 1,321 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #6,899 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 160 recorded.
Babies named Denzell, 2025
1 in 276,000
Denzell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Denzell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,899
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Denzell 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denzell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Denzells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Denzell was born before 1995 — so the typical Denzell is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 65.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,321
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 65.2% of all recorded uses (861).
Is Denzell 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
- +1,585
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −857
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −834
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.86×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.5%
- Peak was 1992 (160)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Denzell
Denzell is not the most common spelling — Wendell is, with 49.2% against Denzell's 1.2%.
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 Denzell is used
Across 1910–2025, Denzell was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 215,340 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Michigan1 in 100,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 6Alabama1 in —
- 7California1 in —
- 8Georgia1 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. Denzell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Denzell around the world
Where Denzell 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 & Wales2004–2015#4,747in 2015
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Denzell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Denzell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Denzell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.