Denice
Denice was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 10,649 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,070 Americans named Denice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 52 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,918, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
450 babies in 1957, the peak
Denice peaked in 1957, when 450 girls were given it, #443 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,918 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,454 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,921 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,821 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,591 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,091 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,133 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,291 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,562 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,753 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | #6,236 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,585 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,567 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,714 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,208 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,096 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,968 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,127 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,111 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,935 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,464 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,258 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,231 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,434 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,642 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,126 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,976 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,188 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,603 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,589 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,586 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,359 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,569 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,371 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,474 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 104 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 120 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,333 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 128 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 178 | #778 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 204 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 207 | #701 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 238 | #664 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 257 | #640 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 307 | #564 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 282 | #569 | 0.17 |
| 1967 | 282 | #562 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 265 | #578 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 263 | #588 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 355 | #520 | 0.19 |
| 1963 | 326 | #535 | 0.17 |
| 1962 | 315 | #553 | 0.16 |
| 1961 | 335 | #536 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 375 | #499 | 0.19 |
| 1959 | 372 | #505 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 441 | #452 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 450 | #443 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 422 | #446 | 0.21 |
| 1955 | 415 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 442 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1953 | 363 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1952 | 363 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 247 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1950 | 145 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 86 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 83 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,166 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,457 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,612 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,431 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,117 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,602 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denice, and how old are they?
9,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 10,649 Americans ever recorded as Denice. The median Denice alive today is 62 years old; half are between 52 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 9,264 people named Denice (9,223 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,550 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 484 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 59 |
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 Denice born?
The states with the most babies named Denice are California, New York and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,733 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 625 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 589 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 539 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 530 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 411 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 409 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 270 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 229 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 195 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Denice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Denice is most over-represented in California: since 1921 it was given 1.7 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 Denice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Denice?
Denice is a less common spelling of Denise: SSA has recorded 10,649 Denice and 374,789 Denise since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 388,309 babies since 1880, Denice is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Denice (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Denice
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 Denice and names like it
- Compare Denice and DeniseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDenice peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denice since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Denice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Denice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.