Denna
Denna was last recorded in 2023, when 11 babies were given it; 2,377 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,040 Americans named Denna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 46 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,136, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1969, the peak
Denna peaked in 1969, when 102 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11 | #9,136 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,206 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,377 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,653 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,916 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,328 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,408 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,270 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,362 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,435 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,538 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,513 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,465 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,589 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,910 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,300 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,849 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,800 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,424 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,397 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,847 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,717 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,105 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,476 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,520 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,320 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,738 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,770 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,634 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,785 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,069 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,105 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,548 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,351 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,160 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,388 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,875 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,537 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,590 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,808 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,455 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,032 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,738 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,882 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,729 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,107 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,997 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,855 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,627 | 38.4 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,474 | 42.7 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,476 | 41.5 |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,170 | 56.6 |
| 1969 | 102 | #1,095 | 60.5 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,250 | 46.9 |
| 1967 | 78 | #1,204 | 47.2 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,589 | 29.5 |
| 1965 | 59 | #1,439 | 33.4 |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,297 | 39.1 |
| 1963 | 82 | #1,212 | 42.5 |
| 1962 | 78 | #1,248 | 39.7 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,439 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 60 | #1,418 | 29.7 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,600 | 22.7 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,609 | 21.9 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,756 | 18.6 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,382 | 28.4 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,851 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,914 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,567 | 20.7 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,652 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,073 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,966 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,227 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,679 | 18.3 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,297 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,408 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,194 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,978 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,960 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,137 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,116 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,013 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,966 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,773 | 9.1 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,337 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,358 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,362 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,284 | 7.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,500 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,005 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,144 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,577 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,299 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denna, and how old are they?
2,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,377 Americans ever recorded as Denna. The median Denna alive today is 57 years old; half are between 46 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 2,212 people named Denna (2,197 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,090 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 652 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 826 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 284 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 111 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 105 |
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 Denna born?
The states with the most babies named Denna are Texas, California and Illinois, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 93 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Denna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Denna?
Denna is a less common spelling of Dena: SSA has recorded 2,377 Denna and 32,535 Dena since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 227,988 babies since 1880, Denna is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 168 babies recorded by SSA was a Denna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Denna
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 Denna and names like it
- Compare Denna and DenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDenna peaked in 1969.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denna since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Denna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Denna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.