Denae
Denae was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,498 among girls’ names; 2,569 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Denae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denae?
#15,498 among girls’ names, 2025
Denae fell from #9,097 in 2015 to #15,498 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.1 per million.
81 babies in 1997, the peak
Denae peaked in 1997, when 81 girls were given it, #1,825 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,498 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,460 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,467 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,487 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,735 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,915 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,871 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,548 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,689 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,097 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #6,042 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,869 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,295 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,593 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,638 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,961 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,660 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,398 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,379 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,273 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,135 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,845 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,313 | 39.0 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,304 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,145 | 41.3 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,075 | 41.7 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,194 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,825 | 46.5 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,284 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,160 | 35.3 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,433 | 29.1 |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,031 | 37.6 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,911 | 39.6 |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,072 | 34.7 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,878 | 39.5 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,849 | 38.5 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,913 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,776 | 38.0 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,672 | 40.8 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,866 | 34.9 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,733 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,570 | 42.5 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,970 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,990 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,812 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,807 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,843 | 35.3 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,433 | 23.5 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,741 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,301 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,028 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,466 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,833 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,286 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,953 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,599 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,835 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,892 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,530 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,162 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,023 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,620 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,831 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,986 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,526 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,724 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,588 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,992 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,550 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,142 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,867 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denae, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,569 Americans ever recorded as Denae. The median Denae alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 2,353 people named Denae (2,341 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 996 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Denae born?
The states with the most babies named Denae are California, Texas and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 338 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 80 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Denae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 91,912 babies since 1880, Denae is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 89 babies (5.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Denae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Denae and names like it
- Compare Denae and DenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDenae peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denae since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Denae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Denae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.