Denece
Denece was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 180 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denece by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denece?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,501, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1956, the peak
Denece peaked in 1956, when 18 girls were given it, #2,738 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #7,501 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,026 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,967 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,966 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,154 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,440 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,428 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,791 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,387 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,663 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 9 | #4,254 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,746 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,738 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,841 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,042 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,754 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,049 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,470 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,411 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,286 | 4.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,399 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denece a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denece has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denece: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denece, and how old are they?
An estimated 144 Americans named Denece and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 63 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Denece (230 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Denece?
Denece is a less common spelling of Denese: SSA has recorded 180 Denece and 1,588 Denese since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,705 babies since 1880, Denece is the eighth most given (1.2% of them).
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 Denece
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 Denece and names like it
- Compare Denece and DeneseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDenece peaked in 1956.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Denece.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Denece alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.