Meaning not yet researched.
Denali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,053 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,053 in 2022; #2,338 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Denali in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,338 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,053.
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Denali: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,053 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 94 (2022).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Denali, making it the 2,338th most common girls’ name of the year, down 232 places from #2,106 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 91 girls named Denali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,053, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #2,785 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Denali, making it the 3,596th most common boys’ name of the year, up 751 places from #4,347 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 24 boys named Denali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,673, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 42, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,713 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denali in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 2,479 US babies have been given the name, 72% of them girls and 28% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 800 babies named Denali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 775 US girls were named Denali; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denali ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #953 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Denaly and Denalia are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Denaly (116), Denalia (10).
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 Denali in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #953 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,248 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,078 | #3,407 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,338 | 31 | #3,596 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,106 | 24 | #4,347 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,358 | 42 | #2,962 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,053 | 41 | #3,016 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,135 | 40 | #3,031 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,447 | 15 | #5,777 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,607 | 28 | #3,823 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,280 | 19 | #4,973 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,639 | 21 | #4,636 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,746 | 25 | #4,124 |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,785 | 29 | #3,713 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,015 | 20 | #4,741 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,777 | 11 | #7,149 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,382 | 22 | #4,427 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,509 | 13 | #6,327 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,700 | 20 | #4,714 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,131 | 15 | #5,874 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,088 | 22 | #4,434 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,732 | 26 | #3,925 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,993 | 31 | #3,401 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,093 | 41 | #2,673 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,863 | 31 | #3,174 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,196 | 33 | #2,942 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,946 | 29 | #3,125 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,155 | 17 | #4,532 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,347 | 8 | #7,613 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,991 | 12 | #5,394 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,427 | 7 | #7,770 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,718 | 6 | #8,054 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,407 | 5 | #9,155 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,890 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,500 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,701 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,169 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,980 | — | — |
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).