Denim
Denim is given to both girls and boys: 101 girls and 271 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,914 among girls’ names and #880 among boys’, #1,447 among all names counting both); 3,843 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,810 Americans named Denim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Denim climbed 227 places in 2025, the #18 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denim?
#880 among boys’ names, 2025
Denim rose from #1,626 in 2015 to #880 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.16 per 1,000.
372 babies in 2025, the peak
Denim peaked in 2025, when 372 babies were given it (271 boys, #880 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 194 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,914 | 271 | #880 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,139 | 194 | #1,107 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,320 | 156 | #1,244 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,412 | 154 | #1,263 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,516 | 156 | #1,230 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,692 | 122 | #1,416 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,569 | 130 | #1,374 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,344 | 136 | #1,330 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,026 | 143 | #1,273 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,773 | 117 | #1,470 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,309 | 98 | #1,626 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,790 | 95 | #1,632 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,448 | 97 | #1,593 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,145 | 73 | #1,947 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,387 | 42 | #2,811 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,992 | 87 | #1,743 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,135 | 79 | #1,852 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,622 | 67 | #2,069 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,759 | 71 | #1,983 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,364 | 74 | #1,845 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,071 | 61 | #2,036 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,097 | 67 | #1,836 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,872 | 55 | #2,057 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,147 | 52 | #2,067 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,442 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,410 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,024 | 9 | #6,660 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #7,764 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,470 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,342 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,807 | 12 | #4,863 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,996 | 10 | #5,544 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,677 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,499 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,193 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,288 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,509 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,482 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,284 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,220 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,071 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,669 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,273 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Denim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,843 Americans recorded as Denim, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Denim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denim, and how old are they?
3,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,843 Americans ever recorded as Denim. The median Denim alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,861 people named Denim (546 women and girls, 1,315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,710 |
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 Denim born?
The states with the most babies named Denim are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 44 | #899 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 44 | #360 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 28 | #242 | 5.5× |
| California | 21 | #1,211 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 19 | #781 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #726 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 16 | #880 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 15 | #852 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 13 | #690 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #560 | 0.5× |
Where Denim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Denim is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1973 it was given 5.5 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 boys’ 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 Denim 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 3,938 babies since 1880, Denim is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 372 of their 379 babies (98%), again the most given.
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 Denim
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 Denim and names like it
- Compare Denim and DenhamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDenim peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denim since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Denim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Denim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.