Denim
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births · #880 for boys in 2025, 271 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 271 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,721since 1973
Denim over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 | #880 | 271 |
| 2024 | #2,134 | 89 | #1,106 | 194 |
| 2023 | #2,314 | 79 | #1,244 | 156 |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 | #1,263 | 154 |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | #1,230 | 156 |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | #1,415 | 122 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 | #1,372 | 130 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 | #1,328 | 136 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 | #1,272 | 143 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 | #1,467 | 117 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | #1,627 | 95 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,739 | 87 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 | #1,852 | 79 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,062 | 67 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #2,035 | 61 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #1,834 | 67 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #2,055 | 55 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #5,452 | 10 |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Denim! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Denim
- 226 spots since 2024 (#1,106 → #880)
- 535 spots since 2020 (#1,415 → #880)
- 745 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #880)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 2025 (#1,106 → #880)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #880 (271 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,303 boys born in 2025 were named Denim (0.02%)
- 38.7% of all boys named Denim (1,053) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1988, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 26 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,505 |
| 1980s | 16 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,484 |
| 1990s | 62 | #4,791 (1995) | #6,915 |
| 2000s | 546 | #1,834 (2004) | #2,932 |
| 2010s | 1,018 | #1,272 (2017) | #1,676 |
| 2020s | 1,053 | #880 (2025) | #1,190 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Denim in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 119,792 of them was named Denim, which outranked 61.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,698Zamaria16
- #6,698Ziyah16
- #6,698Zyaire16
- #7,045Denim15
- #7,045Aalyssa15
- #7,045Abagael15
- #7,045Abaigeal15
- #7,444Aalia14
- #7,444Abena14
- #7,444Adelita14
Tied with 398 names at #7,045; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 37,337 of them was named Denim, which outranked 83.4% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,046Viktor53
- #2,046Vishal53
- #2,046Zacary53
- #2,068Denim52
- #2,068Armond52
- #2,068Carver52
- #2,068Deegan52
- #2,092Anwar51
- #2,092Bodhi51
- #2,092Boyd51
Tied with 23 names at #2,068; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.