Denzell

#6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births

Peak · boys
1992 · 160 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,321
since 1987

Denzell over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Denzell has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201993peak #834, 1992boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#6,80312
2024#8,3129
2023#7,73810
2022#9,8237
2021#6,69812
2020#5,98014
2019#5,15318
2018#6,34513
2017#4,74620
2016#7,15711
2015#5,99914
2014#4,39222
2013#4,80419
2012#5,72015
2011#4,50921
2010#4,67820
2009#6,80212
2008#4,39522
2007#4,99618
2006#4,67519
2005#4,63118
2004#4,79317
2003#3,97621
2002#3,25927
2001#3,97420
2000#3,42324
1999#3,10326
1998#2,45035
1997#2,31136
1996#1,55264
1995#1,28683
1994#1,026117
1993#940131
1992#834160
1991#909133
1990#1,27076
1989#6,2297
1988#5,2008
1987#4,23910
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five boys were named Denzell! It came in at #4,239, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1989, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.

See more about Denzell
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,509 spots since 2024 (#8,312#6,803)
  • 823 spots since 2020 (#5,980#6,803)
  • 804 spots since 2015 (#5,999#6,803)
  • Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1991 (#1,270#909)
  • Biggest drop: 106 spots in 1993 (#834#940)
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 1992 at #834 (160 births)
  • Births halved by 1996, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1991–1993
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,484
  • Highest: 1 in 12,484 boys born in 1992 were named Denzell (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 65.2% of all boys named Denzell (861) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s25#4,239 (1987)#5,223
1990s861#834 (1992)#1,568
2000s198#3,259 (2002)#4,492
2010s173#4,392 (2014)#5,350
2020s64#5,980 (2020)#7,559

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.

Denzell in 1993

boys
#940
131 births · 1 in 14,972 boys

Top boys' names in 1993

  1. #1Michael49,571
  2. #2Christopher38,237
  3. #3Matthew35,782
  4. #4Joshua33,590
  5. #5Tyler29,800
  6. #6Brandon28,735
  7. #7Daniel28,698
  8. #8Nicholas28,114
  9. #9Jacob27,487
  10. #10Andrew27,326
  11. #940Denzell131
More about 1993

boys

1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 14,972 of them was named Denzell, which outranked 90.8% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Denzell
  1. #936Caden132
  2. #936Edmund132
  3. #936Kaden132
  4. #940Denzell131
  5. #940Rakeem131
  6. #942Dejuan130
  7. #942Emerson130
  8. #942Tavon130

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1992
Risers
  1. 5,880Savon#6,670#790
  2. 2,006Jordy#2,834#828
  3. 662Austyn#1,598#936
  4. 471Devaughn#1,395#924
  5. 454Mikal#1,294#840
Fallers
  1. 329Channing#887#1,216
  2. 307Garth#658#965
  3. 252Earnest#911#1,163
  4. 241Armand#987#1,228
  5. 240Spenser#831#1,071

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1993