Denali — #2118 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Denali

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,716 babies named Denali between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Denali currently holds the #2118 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Denali is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 653 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Denali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 592 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Denali shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 144 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alaska. In total, SSA state-level files list Denali in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Denali in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,716 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.