Deniz
Deniz is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 50 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,177 among girls’ names and #2,611 among boys’, #4,520 among all names counting both); 2,122 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Deniz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deniz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deniz mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Deniz is “a unisex given name” Its etymology gives the sense “sea” (deniz).
From deniz (“sea”).
/de.niz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deniz?
#2,611 among boys’ names, 2025
Deniz rose from #2,980 in 2015 to #2,611 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 29.3 per million.
87 babies in 2016, the peak
Deniz peaked in 2016, when 87 babies were given it (56 boys, #2,343 among boys’ names). The 69 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,177 | 50 | #2,611 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,796 | 39 | #3,118 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,029 | 53 | #2,515 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,043 | 33 | #3,479 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,270 | 32 | #3,516 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,237 | 32 | #3,439 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,801 | 58 | #2,343 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,202 | 54 | #2,423 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,416 | 52 | #2,461 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,557 | 56 | #2,343 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,706 | 39 | #2,980 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,349 | 43 | #2,763 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,304 | 30 | #3,517 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,312 | 34 | #3,245 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,464 | 38 | #3,009 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,445 | 32 | #3,388 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,156 | 32 | #3,415 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,219 | 39 | #3,016 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,947 | 30 | #3,528 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,235 | 26 | #3,811 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,140 | 34 | #3,029 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,864 | 28 | #3,380 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,669 | 27 | #3,375 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,463 | 33 | #2,828 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,871 | 22 | #3,739 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,567 | 20 | #3,947 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,915 | 15 | #4,579 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,677 | 15 | #4,459 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,246 | 11 | #5,360 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,111 | 20 | #3,432 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,243 | 13 | #4,576 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,014 | 18 | #3,628 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,352 | 10 | #5,438 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,084 | 12 | #4,629 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,229 | 12 | #4,547 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,898 | 18 | #3,337 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,905 | 13 | #4,076 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,982 | 9 | #4,875 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,523 | 11 | #4,026 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,912 | 8 | #4,963 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,752 | 10 | #4,122 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,199 | 7 | #5,101 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,842 | 7 | #5,049 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,023 | 7 | #5,150 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,815 | 5 | #6,510 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,369 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,276 | 6 | #5,514 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #3,933 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,738 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,105 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,274 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,641 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,494 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,423 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,604 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,410 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,043 | 5 | #4,194 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,025 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,794 | under 5 |
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 Deniz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,122 Americans recorded as Deniz, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deniz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deniz, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,122 Americans ever recorded as Deniz. The median Deniz alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,350 people named Deniz (1,218 women and girls, 1,132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 376 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 914 |
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 Deniz born?
The states with the most babies named Deniz are Florida, California and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #922 | 0.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,258 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,662 | 0.2× |
Where Deniz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deniz is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 1.6 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 Deniz with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deniz
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 Deniz and names like it
- Compare Deniz and SimchaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDeniz peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deniz since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Deniz: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Deniz.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Deniz alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.