Denielle — girls' name
980 babies named Denielle in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Denielle was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Denielle in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Denielle
The Social Security Administration has registered 980 babies named Denielle between 1961 and 2013, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Denielle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Denielle performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 398 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Denielle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Denielle in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Denielle 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 980 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.
Denielle at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Denielle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1961
- Peak year (1985)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
980 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 50 births in a single year.
Denielle by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 398 births that decade — 41% of Denielle's all-time total
Denielle decade highlights
- Peak decade 398 births
- Runner-up 269 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Denielle's strongest decade
398 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Denielle by state
Where Denielle concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 65 | 6.6% |
| #2 | New York | | 28 | 2.9% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 20 | 2.0% |
| #4 | Florida | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Massachusetts | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Michigan | | 6 | 0.6% |
65 of 980 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.6% of nationwide
- New York 2.9% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 2.0% of nationwide
- Florida 0.7% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.