Denita
Denita was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 2,750 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,490 Americans named Denita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 46 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,151, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1966, the peak
Denita peaked in 1966, when 114 girls were given it, #952 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,151 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,799 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,683 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,982 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,331 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,475 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,036 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,239 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,822 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,883 | 11.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 24 | #4,284 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,570 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,737 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,914 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,335 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,335 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,981 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,924 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,054 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,085 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,078 | 28.7 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,828 | 34.8 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,832 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,865 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,683 | 41.1 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,691 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,580 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 75 | #1,408 | 51.2 |
| 1975 | 69 | #1,484 | 47.3 |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,419 | 49.1 |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,303 | 53.5 |
| 1972 | 82 | #1,257 | 53.9 |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,365 | 46.9 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,393 | 42.9 |
| 1969 | 105 | #1,081 | 62.2 |
| 1968 | 87 | #1,160 | 53.0 |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,212 | 46.6 |
| 1966 | 114 | #952 | 67.4 |
| 1965 | 100 | #1,049 | 56.7 |
| 1964 | 113 | #1,011 | 59.6 |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,091 | 51.4 |
| 1962 | 111 | #1,021 | 56.4 |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,038 | 55.0 |
| 1960 | 74 | #1,280 | 36.6 |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,383 | 29.7 |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,276 | 34.3 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,493 | 24.9 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,402 | 27.9 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,448 | 25.1 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,316 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,614 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,416 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,609 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,863 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,417 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,796 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denita, and how old are they?
2,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,750 Americans ever recorded as Denita. The median Denita alive today is 55 years old; half are between 46 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 2,335 people named Denita (2,329 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,566 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 731 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 539 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 46 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Denita born?
The states with the most babies named Denita are Illinois, California and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 115 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 77 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 75 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 46 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 38 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 35 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Denita 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 2,945 babies since 1880, Denita is the most given (93% 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 Denita
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 Denita and names like it
- Compare Denita and DenettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDenita peaked in 1966.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denita since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Denita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Denita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.