Deniece
Deniece was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 1,162 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deniece by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deniece?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,702, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1957, the peak
Deniece peaked in 1957, when 40 girls were given it, #1,708 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,702 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,031 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,358 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,179 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,421 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,395 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,980 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,679 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,023 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,755 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #12,489 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,811 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,951 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,292 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,879 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,161 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,068 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,897 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,907 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,260 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,159 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,062 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,882 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,249 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,589 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,594 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,646 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,031 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,441 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,881 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,273 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,767 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,350 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,072 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,821 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,588 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,882 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,137 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,119 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,986 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,568 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,261 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,957 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,493 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,316 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,086 | 16.3 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,307 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,067 | 15.3 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,890 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,881 | 16.9 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,708 | 19.6 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,844 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,850 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,845 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,938 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,280 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,719 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,482 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,875 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,861 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,451 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,740 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,448 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,829 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,552 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,012 | 7.9 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,472 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,400 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,169 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,222 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,361 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,561 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deniece a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deniece has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deniece: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deniece, and how old are they?
An estimated 996 Americans named Deniece and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 43 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,128 people named Deniece (1,128 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,109 babies since 1880, Deniece is the second most given (8.9% 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 Deniece
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 Deniece and names like it
- Compare Deniece and DeniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDeniece peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deniece since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Deniece.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deniece alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.