Meaning not yet researched.
Denim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 271 in 2025. Its best rank was #880 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 73% of babies named Denim in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#880 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Denim: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 271 boys in 2025. Peak: #880 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 271 (2025).
In 2025, 271 US boys were named Denim, making it the 880th most common boys’ name of the year, up 227 places from #1,107 in 2024. That is 77 more than the 194 boys named Denim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #880, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 271. For comparison, it was #1,626 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Denim, making it the 1,914th most common girls’ name of the year, up 225 places from #2,139 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 89 girls named Denim in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,914, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 101. For comparison, it was #3,309 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denim in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 3,843 US babies have been given the name, 29% of them girls and 71% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,530 babies named Denim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,579 US boys were named Denim; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 271. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,303 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denim ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #242 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Denym (774 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deneem 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: Deneem (5).
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 Denim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 21 | #242 | #441 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #342 | — |
| Georgia | 33 | #360 | #1,122 |
| Alabama | 12 | #430 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #515 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #560 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #690 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #726 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #736 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #781 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #834 | #655 |
| Michigan | 8 | #852 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #880 | #1,250 |
| Texas | 28 | #899 | #1,207 |
| New York | 11 | #1,069 | #1,264 |
| California | 16 | #1,211 | #2,343 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,914 | 271 | #880 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,139 | 194 | #1,107 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,320 | 156 | #1,244 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,412 | 154 | #1,263 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,516 | 156 | #1,230 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,692 | 122 | #1,416 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,569 | 130 | #1,374 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,344 | 136 | #1,330 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,026 | 143 | #1,273 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,773 | 117 | #1,470 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,309 | 98 | #1,626 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,792 | 95 | #1,632 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,450 | 97 | #1,593 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,147 | 73 | #1,948 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,388 | 42 | #2,812 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,995 | 87 | #1,744 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,138 | 79 | #1,853 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,625 | 67 | #2,070 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,762 | 71 | #1,983 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,367 | 74 | #1,845 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,076 | 61 | #2,040 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,101 | 67 | #1,840 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,877 | 55 | #2,061 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,153 | 52 | #2,071 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,449 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,418 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,033 | 9 | #6,666 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,772 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,476 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,349 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,812 | 12 | #4,869 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,002 | 10 | #5,550 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,684 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,506 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,200 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,295 | — | — |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,511 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,484 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,286 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,223 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,073 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,671 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,275 |
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).