Denyce
Denyce was last recorded in 2005, when 8 babies were given it; 335 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denyce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,123, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1954, the peak
Denyce peaked in 1954, when 24 girls were given it, #2,196 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,123 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,751 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,400 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,333 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,026 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,477 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,863 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,000 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,572 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,137 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 | #6,770 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,650 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,723 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,614 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,292 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,838 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,706 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,402 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,413 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,327 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,835 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,620 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,299 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,373 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,256 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,993 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,744 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,253 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,196 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,755 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,950 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,108 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,738 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,800 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,954 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,778 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,090 | 4.5 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,397 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denyce has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denyce, and how old are they?
An estimated 283 Americans named Denyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 50 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 423 people named Denyce (416 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Denyce?
Denyce is a less common spelling of Denise: SSA has recorded 335 Denyce and 374,789 Denise since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 387,898 babies since 1880, Denyce is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Denyce (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 Denyce
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 Denyce and names like it
- Compare Denyce and DeniseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDenyce peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Denyce.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Denyce alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.