Dene — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dene

The Social Security Administration has registered 572 babies named Dene between 1921 and 2000, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dene currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Dene is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 223 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dene performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Dene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dene in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dene 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 572 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.