Meaning not yet researched.
Deniz: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,343 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,343 in 2016; #2,611 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Deniz in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,611 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,343.
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Deniz: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,343 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 58 (2019).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Deniz, making it the 2,611th most common boys’ name of the year, up 509 places from #3,120 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 39 boys named Deniz in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,343, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2019. For comparison, it was #2,981 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Deniz, making it the 6,178th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,379 places from #4,799 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 28 girls named Deniz in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,237, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 48. For comparison, it was #5,708 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deniz in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 2,122 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 662 babies named Deniz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 459 US boys were named Deniz; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deniz ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #922 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dennis (623,692 babies since 1880), Denise (374,789 babies since 1880) and Denis (21,606 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Deniz 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #922 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,258 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,662 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,178 | 50 | #2,611 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,799 | 39 | #3,120 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,032 | 53 | #2,516 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,047 | 33 | #3,481 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,274 | 32 | #3,519 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,237 | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,802 | 58 | #2,344 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,206 | 54 | #2,424 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,418 | 52 | #2,462 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,558 | 56 | #2,343 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,708 | 39 | #2,981 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,351 | 43 | #2,765 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,307 | 30 | #3,519 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,316 | 34 | #3,248 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,471 | 38 | #3,010 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,448 | 32 | #3,389 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,160 | 32 | #3,417 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,223 | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,951 | 30 | #3,530 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,237 | 26 | #3,813 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,144 | 34 | #3,033 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,869 | 28 | #3,384 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,674 | 27 | #3,380 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,469 | 33 | #2,832 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,876 | 22 | #3,744 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,574 | 20 | #3,953 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,921 | 15 | #4,585 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,680 | 15 | #4,463 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,251 | 11 | #5,366 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,116 | 20 | #3,438 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,248 | 13 | #4,582 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,020 | 18 | #3,634 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,358 | 10 | #5,444 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,090 | 12 | #4,636 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,235 | 12 | #4,554 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,904 | 18 | #3,343 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,911 | 13 | #4,082 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,987 | 9 | #4,881 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,528 | 11 | #4,032 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,914 | 8 | #4,968 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,754 | 10 | #4,127 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,200 | 7 | #5,105 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,844 | 7 | #5,052 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,025 | 7 | #5,152 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,817 | 5 | #6,512 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,371 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,278 | 6 | #5,516 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,935 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,740 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,107 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,276 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,643 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,495 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,425 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,411 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,044 | 5 | #4,195 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,026 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,795 | — | — |
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).