Deniz
- #6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- #2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
- Given to boys 57.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,212since 1963
Deniz over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #2,604 | 50 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 | #3,104 | 39 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #2,335 | 56 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 | #2,754 | 43 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #3,000 | 38 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #3,782 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five boys were named Deniz! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Deniz is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Florida#912 · 1 in 6,369
- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,246
- Texas#2,574 · 1 in 35,010
Best ever in a state: #703 in New Jersey, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #912 | 15 | 1 in 6,369 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
| Texas | #2,574 | 5 | 1 in 35,010 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 500 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #2,604)
- 814 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #2,604)
- 362 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,604)
Rise & fade · boys
53 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2016 at #2,335 (56 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 30,935
- Highest: 1 in 30,935 boys born in 2019 were named Deniz (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,335 in 2016, was only 1 in 33,888 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 36.0% of all boys named Deniz (436) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 20 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,771 |
| 1980s | 77 | #3,959 (1987) | #4,757 |
| 1990s | 144 | #3,309 (1990) | #4,346 |
| 2000s | 291 | #2,817 (2002) | #3,391 |
| 2010s | 436 | #2,335 (2016) | #2,837 |
| 2020s | 239 | #2,510 (2023) | #3,100 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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