Denzell
Denzell was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,899 among boys’ names; 1,321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Denzell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denzell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denzell?
#6,899 among boys’ names, 2025
Denzell fell from #6,065 in 2015 to #6,899 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 7.0 per million.
160 babies in 1992, the peak
Denzell peaked in 1992, when 160 boys were given it, #832 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,899 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,484 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,852 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,056 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,796 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,042 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,208 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,426 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,779 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,257 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,065 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,422 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,844 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,773 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,537 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,713 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,893 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,432 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,047 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,723 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,678 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,837 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,003 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,279 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,001 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,441 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,122 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,466 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,319 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,552 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,283 | 43.6 |
| 1994 | 117 | #1,023 | 60.6 |
| 1993 | 131 | #938 | 66.8 |
| 1992 | 160 | #832 | 80.1 |
| 1991 | 133 | #908 | 65.8 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,266 | 37.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,381 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,313 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,318 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Denzell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denzell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denzell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denzell, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,321 Americans ever recorded as Denzell. The median Denzell alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 940 people named Denzell (11 women and girls, 929 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 758 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 345 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 180 |
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).
How common is the spelling Denzell?
Denzell is a less common spelling of Denzel: SSA has recorded 1,321 Denzell and 11,779 Denzel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,007 babies since 1880, Denzell is the third most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 189 babies (6.3%), the second most given that year.
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 Denzell
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 Denzell and names like it
- Compare Denzell and DenzelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDenzell peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denzell since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Denzell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Denzell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.