Meaning not yet researched.
Dena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #208 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #208 in 1970; #4,581 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,581 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #208.
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Dena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #208 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 1,542 (1970).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Dena, making it the 4,581st most common girls’ name of the year, up 113 places from #4,694 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 29 girls named Dena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #208, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,542. For comparison, it was #4,013 in 2015 and #589 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dena in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 32,535 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 9,184 babies named Dena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 337 US girls were named Dena; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dana (246,842 babies since 1880), Eden (63,400 babies since 1880), Dina (32,097 babies since 1880) and Deana (23,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adena, Denay and Denaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adena (1,747), Denay (510), Denaya (299), Denahi (157), Denai (133), Denah (58), Dynah (51), Denaye (43), Deenah (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dena in the open dataset we use.
Dena is listed as a nickname for Adena.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,694 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,903 | — | — |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,135 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,573 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,367 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,321 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1996 | 154 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1993 | 128 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1992 | 142 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1991 | 156 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1990 | 196 | #957 | — | — |
| 1989 | 218 | #855 | 7 | #6,385 |
| 1988 | 250 | #752 | — | — |
| 1987 | 236 | #762 | — | — |
| 1986 | 273 | #672 | — | — |
| 1985 | 358 | #552 | — | — |
| 1984 | 406 | #493 | — | — |
| 1983 | 416 | #478 | — | — |
| 1982 | 451 | #466 | — | — |
| 1981 | 476 | #452 | 8 | #4,624 |
| 1980 | 530 | #416 | — | — |
| 1979 | 537 | #403 | — | — |
| 1978 | 517 | #398 | — | — |
| 1977 | 582 | #368 | — | — |
| 1976 | 676 | #332 | — | — |
| 1975 | 815 | #293 | 6 | #4,953 |
| 1974 | 838 | #286 | — | — |
| 1973 | 854 | #284 | 6 | #4,636 |
| 1972 | 972 | #271 | 9 | #3,410 |
| 1971 | 1,171 | #252 | 10 | #3,196 |
| 1970 | 1,542 | #208 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,264 | #237 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,019 | #266 | 5 | #4,275 |
| 1967 | 960 | #273 | — | — |
| 1966 | 843 | #303 | — | — |
| 1965 | 810 | #318 | — | — |
| 1964 | 908 | #306 | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1963 | 957 | #300 | — | — |
| 1962 | 906 | #309 | — | — |
| 1961 | 768 | #342 | — | — |
| 1960 | 739 | #355 | — | — |
| 1959 | 599 | #387 | — | — |
| 1958 | 516 | #408 | — | — |
| 1957 | 471 | #433 | — | — |
| 1956 | 503 | #404 | — | — |
| 1955 | 467 | #404 | — | — |
| 1954 | 427 | #421 | — | — |
| 1953 | 315 | #488 | — | — |
| 1952 | 229 | #570 | — | — |
| 1951 | 224 | #571 | — | — |
| 1950 | 205 | #589 | — | — |
| 1949 | 178 | #619 | — | — |
| 1948 | 172 | #631 | — | — |
| 1947 | 223 | #571 | — | — |
| 1946 | 123 | #728 | — | — |
| 1945 | 127 | #651 | — | — |
| 1944 | 112 | #711 | — | — |
| 1943 | 84 | #850 | — | — |
| 1942 | 88 | #817 | — | — |
| 1941 | 79 | #812 | — | — |
| 1940 | 73 | #835 | — | — |
| 1939 | 76 | #785 | — | — |
| 1938 | 68 | #857 | — | — |
| 1937 | 64 | #862 | — | — |
| 1936 | 65 | #840 | — | — |
| 1935 | 59 | #897 | — | — |
| 1934 | 49 | #985 | — | — |
| 1933 | 66 | #821 | — | — |
| 1932 | 73 | #797 | — | — |
| 1931 | 76 | #770 | — | — |
| 1930 | 78 | #802 | — | — |
| 1929 | 71 | #843 | — | — |
| 1928 | 64 | #927 | — | — |
| 1927 | 77 | #842 | — | — |
| 1926 | 92 | #748 | — | — |
| 1925 | 91 | #774 | — | — |
| 1924 | 86 | #805 | — | — |
| 1923 | 86 | #787 | — | — |
| 1922 | 83 | #798 | — | — |
| 1921 | 97 | #743 | — | — |
| 1920 | 95 | #743 | — | — |
| 1919 | 104 | #685 | — | — |
| 1918 | 122 | #643 | — | — |
| 1917 | 94 | #713 | — | — |
| 1916 | 96 | #700 | — | — |
| 1915 | 113 | #615 | — | — |
| 1914 | 75 | #673 | — | — |
| 1913 | 62 | #660 | — | — |
| 1912 | 59 | #651 | — | — |
| 1911 | 48 | #618 | — | — |
| 1910 | 30 | #783 | — | — |
| 1909 | 31 | #720 | — | — |
| 1908 | 49 | #522 | — | — |
| 1907 | 38 | #603 | — | — |
| 1906 | 28 | #693 | — | — |
| 1905 | 37 | #572 | — | — |
| 1904 | 39 | #530 | — | — |
| 1903 | 24 | #681 | — | — |
| 1902 | 36 | #537 | — | — |
| 1901 | 41 | #468 | — | — |
| 1900 | 53 | #463 | — | — |
| 1899 | 37 | #483 | — | — |
| 1898 | 48 | #443 | — | — |
| 1897 | 40 | #462 | — | — |
| 1896 | 50 | #405 | — | — |
| 1895 | 36 | #489 | — | — |
| 1894 | 63 | #350 | — | — |
| 1893 | 32 | #475 | — | — |
| 1892 | 45 | #398 | — | — |
| 1891 | 33 | #442 | — | — |
| 1890 | 31 | #470 | — | — |
| 1889 | 30 | #445 | — | — |
| 1888 | 38 | #396 | — | — |
| 1887 | 39 | #345 | — | — |
| 1886 | 32 | #378 | — | — |
| 1885 | 27 | #397 | — | — |
| 1884 | 24 | #410 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #485 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #515 | — | — |
| 1881 | 23 | #341 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #474 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).