Denver — #486 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Denver

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,593 babies named Denver between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Denver currently holds the #486 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 644 babies received it in a single year. Denver is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,909 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Denver performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 2,985 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Denver shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 1,722 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Denver in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Denver 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 18,593 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.