Denae
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 71 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,569since 1953
Denae over time
Rank among girls' names. Denae has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 |
| 2002 | #2,310 | 70 |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 |
| 2000 | #2,141 | 75 |
| 1999 | #2,073 | 74 |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 1997 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 1993 | #2,033 | 68 |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 |
| 1991 | #2,073 | 65 |
| 1990 | #1,880 | 75 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 |
| 1988 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 1987 | #1,776 | 66 |
| 1986 | #1,669 | 70 |
| 1985 | #1,856 | 60 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 |
| 1982 | #1,965 | 53 |
| 1981 | #1,985 | 53 |
| 1980 | #1,805 | 60 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #1,841 | 54 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 |
| 1969 | #2,585 | 26 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 |
| 1966 | #2,519 | 23 |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Denae! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Denae is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,454 · 1 in 17,037
Best ever in a state: #424 in New Mexico, 2005.
Show every state
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| California | #1,454 | 9 | 1 in 17,037 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Denae
- 5,396 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #14,942)
- 6,011 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1983 at #1,565 (71 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,490 girls born in 1997 were named Denae (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,565 in 1983, was only 1 in 23,530 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.2% of all girls named Denae (673) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 50 | #3,543 (1958) | #4,541 |
| 1960s | 167 | #2,154 (1965) | #3,456 |
| 1970s | 290 | #1,841 (1978) | #2,753 |
| 1980s | 631 | #1,565 (1983) | #1,811 |
| 1990s | 673 | #1,828 (1997) | #2,085 |
| 2000s | 529 | #2,141 (2000) | #3,132 |
| 2010s | 190 | #4,608 (2010) | #6,870 |
| 2020s | 39 | #9,546 (2020) | #11,642 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Denae in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 28,368 of them was named Denae, which outranked 84.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,824Taneisha55
- #1,824Taneshia55
- #1,824Yasmine55
- #1,841Denae54
- #1,841Anglea54
- #1,841Candra54
- #1,841Iliana54
- #1,862Ashanti53
- #1,862Ashli53
- #1,862Carlotta53
Tied with 20 names at #1,841; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.