Denean

Last seen for girls in 1997 at #12,070

Peak · girls
1965 · 61 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
484
since 1955

Denean over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Denean has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #1,407, 1965girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1989#12,3625
1988#10,3866
1987#8,7787
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1983#6,21210
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Denean! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957–1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Denean is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more girls named Denean in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Denean
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 1965 at #1,407 (61 births)
  • Births halved by 1967, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 28,937
  • Highest: 1 in 28,937 girls born in 1965 were named Denean (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 290,118 girls born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 50.2% of all girls named Denean (243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s12#4,837 (1956)#5,333
1960s243#1,407 (1965)#3,181
1970s143#2,779 (1970)#4,876
1980s68#4,945 (1982)#8,665
1990s18#11,409 (1990)#11,739

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.

Denean in 1955

girls
#5,828
5 births · 1 in 391,055 girls

Top girls' names in 1955

  1. #1Mary63,174
  2. #2Deborah52,318
  3. #3Linda51,300
  4. #4Debra50,563
  5. #5Susan47,418
  6. #6Patricia46,226
  7. #7Barbara33,617
  8. #8Karen33,217
  9. #9Nancy30,023
  10. #10Donna27,940
  11. #5,828Denean5
More about 1955

girls

1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 391,055 of them was named Denean, which outranked 13.4% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Denean
  1. #5,208Yvonnia6
  2. #5,208Zeena6
  3. #5,208Zera6
  4. #5,828Denean5
  5. #5,828Abagail5
  6. #5,828Abelina5
  7. #5,828Adalene5

Tied with 904 names at #5,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. ↑ 793Athena#1,505 → #712
  2. ↑ 675Desiree#984 → #309
  3. ↑ 661Roni#1,197 → #536
  4. ↑ 630Gisele#1,444 → #814
  5. ↑ 593Carmel#1,422 → #829
Fallers
  1. ↓ 514Valinda#806 → #1,320
  2. ↓ 378Elouise#969 → #1,347
  3. ↓ 287Veda#831 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 275Drema#978 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 264Brooke#965 → #1,229

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1955 →