Deneen
Deneen was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 3,610 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Deneen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 58 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deneen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deneen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,356, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,611 babies in 1964, the peak
Deneen peaked in 1964, when 1,611 babies were given it (1,604 girls, #216 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #18,356 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,948 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,061 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,773 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 19 | #4,908 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,981 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,225 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,094 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,924 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,849 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,190 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,743 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,847 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,280 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,142 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,029 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,238 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,396 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 82 | #1,309 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 109 | #1,050 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 138 | #875 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 157 | #796 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 223 | #641 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 421 | #465 | 0.24 |
| 1964 | 1,604 | #216 | 0.85 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,742 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,804 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,151 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,875 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deneen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deneen has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deneen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deneen, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 3,610 Americans ever recorded as Deneen. The median Deneen alive today is 61 years old; half are between 58 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 3,078 people named Deneen (3,057 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,590 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 273 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 23 |
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 Deneen born?
The states with the most babies named Deneen are Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 437 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New York | 335 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 277 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 206 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 166 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 142 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| California | 134 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 92 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 85 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 69 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Deneen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deneen is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1947 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Deneen 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,094 babies since 1880, Deneen is the most given (88% 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 Deneen
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 Deneen and names like it
- Compare Deneen and DeneanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDeneen peaked in 1964.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deneen since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Deneen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deneen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.