Meaning not yet researched.
Denae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,570 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,570 in 1983; #15,502 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Denae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,502 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,570.
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Denae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,570 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 81 (1997).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Denae, making it the 15,502nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,570, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 81, in 1997. For comparison, it was #9,102 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denae in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 2,569 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 673 babies named Denae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93 US girls were named Denae; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dena (32,535 babies since 1880), Dina (32,097 babies since 1880), Deana (23,476 babies since 1880) and Deena (13,671 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Denae in the open dataset we use.
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 | 5 | #15,502 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,465 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,472 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,492 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,740 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,920 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,875 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,552 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,692 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,102 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,044 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,872 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,596 | — | — |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,962 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,725 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,143 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,869 | — | — |
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).