Meaning not yet researched.
Denver: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 578 in 2025. Its best rank was #422 in 1925.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #422 in 1925; #518 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Denver in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#518 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1925, at #422.
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Denver: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 578 boys in 2025. Peak: #422 in 1925 · most boys in one year: 645 (2022).
In 2025, 578 US boys were named Denver, making it the 518th most common boys’ name of the year, down 30 places from #488 in 2024. That is 55 fewer than the 633 boys named Denver in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #422, reached in 1925. The most boys given the name in a single year was 645, in 2022. For comparison, it was #899 in 2015 and #596 in 1950.
In 2025, 326 US girls were named Denver, making it the 836th most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #780 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 362 girls named Denver in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #778, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 365. For comparison, it was #1,241 in 2015 and #4,867 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denver in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 23,413 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,598 babies named Denver.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,903 US boys were named Denver; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 645. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,955 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denver ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #236 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dynver (458 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Denvyr 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: Denvyr (35).
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 Denver 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 15 | #236 | #403 |
| Kentucky | 23 | #238 | #389 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #267 | #393 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #268 | — |
| Mississippi | 11 | #289 | — |
| Utah | 17 | #290 | #484 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #298 | — |
| South Carolina | 18 | #300 | — |
| Missouri | 22 | #303 | #574 |
| Iowa | 12 | #316 | — |
| Alabama | 17 | #319 | #640 |
| Ohio | 33 | #341 | #803 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #341 | — |
| Indiana | 22 | #343 | #744 |
| Georgia | 35 | #345 | #857 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #372 | #375 |
| Kansas | 9 | #401 | — |
| Maryland | 12 | #419 | #729 |
| Virginia | 16 | #477 | — |
| North Carolina | 19 | #518 | #1,023 |
| Michigan | 15 | #547 | #644 |
| Illinois | 17 | #549 | #853 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #552 | #961 |
| Texas | 57 | #561 | #1,008 |
| Florida | 29 | #588 | #1,299 |
| Arizona | 10 | #647 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #710 | — |
| New York | 18 | #775 | #1,675 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,066 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,127 | #1,269 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 326 | #836 | 578 | #518 |
| 2024 | 362 | #780 | 633 | #488 |
| 2023 | 360 | #782 | 590 | #510 |
| 2022 | 323 | #862 | 645 | #480 |
| 2021 | 365 | #778 | 579 | #508 |
| 2020 | 295 | #896 | 542 | #526 |
| 2019 | 300 | #891 | 423 | #636 |
| 2018 | 249 | #1,037 | 370 | #675 |
| 2017 | 218 | #1,138 | 274 | #821 |
| 2016 | 181 | #1,321 | 269 | #839 |
| 2015 | 197 | #1,241 | 242 | #899 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,697 | 188 | #1,054 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,265 | 162 | #1,119 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,690 | 141 | #1,251 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,919 | 142 | #1,230 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,531 | 128 | #1,332 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,472 | 132 | #1,317 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,388 | 169 | #1,095 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,667 | 147 | #1,197 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,810 | 146 | #1,155 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,743 | 151 | #1,095 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,527 | 134 | #1,164 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,128 | 157 | #1,009 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,909 | 146 | #1,049 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,804 | 164 | #945 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,218 | 175 | #894 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,155 | 210 | #761 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,399 | 196 | #784 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,578 | 161 | #869 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,118 | 146 | #903 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,352 | 157 | #866 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,789 | 158 | #855 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,140 | 120 | #993 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,748 | 119 | #992 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,722 | 118 | #988 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,773 | 111 | #1,002 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,216 | 94 | #1,084 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,867 | 97 | #984 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,771 | 109 | #900 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,936 | 106 | #882 |
| 1985 | — | — | 93 | #949 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,567 | 95 | #903 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,681 | 106 | #849 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,523 | 118 | #815 |
| 1981 | — | — | 115 | #818 |
| 1980 | — | — | 103 | #881 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,840 | 120 | #790 |
| 1978 | — | — | 113 | #799 |
| 1977 | — | — | 109 | #816 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,406 | 111 | #787 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,087 | 123 | #751 |
| 1974 | — | — | 101 | #796 |
| 1973 | — | — | 90 | #839 |
| 1972 | — | — | 94 | #829 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,645 | 102 | #797 |
| 1970 | — | — | 86 | #870 |
| 1969 | — | — | 96 | #791 |
| 1968 | — | — | 92 | #773 |
| 1967 | — | — | 98 | #745 |
| 1966 | — | — | 88 | #775 |
| 1965 | — | — | 78 | #831 |
| 1964 | — | — | 124 | #694 |
| 1963 | — | — | 97 | #773 |
| 1962 | — | — | 103 | #751 |
| 1961 | — | — | 102 | #762 |
| 1960 | — | — | 106 | #749 |
| 1959 | — | — | 116 | #714 |
| 1958 | — | — | 120 | #688 |
| 1957 | — | — | 103 | #738 |
| 1956 | — | — | 129 | #672 |
| 1955 | — | — | 135 | #642 |
| 1954 | — | — | 118 | #665 |
| 1953 | — | — | 134 | #621 |
| 1952 | — | — | 140 | #591 |
| 1951 | — | — | 169 | #525 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,867 | 131 | #596 |
| 1949 | — | — | 154 | #536 |
| 1948 | — | — | 160 | #524 |
| 1947 | — | — | 177 | #504 |
| 1946 | — | — | 168 | #497 |
| 1945 | — | — | 152 | #490 |
| 1944 | — | — | 126 | #543 |
| 1943 | — | — | 144 | #521 |
| 1942 | — | — | 154 | #496 |
| 1941 | — | — | 121 | #538 |
| 1940 | — | — | 142 | #484 |
| 1939 | — | — | 135 | #496 |
| 1938 | — | — | 136 | #500 |
| 1937 | — | — | 167 | #437 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,801 | 137 | #482 |
| 1935 | — | — | 172 | #427 |
| 1934 | — | — | 128 | #514 |
| 1933 | — | — | 140 | #475 |
| 1932 | — | — | 153 | #466 |
| 1931 | — | — | 120 | #530 |
| 1930 | — | — | 136 | #511 |
| 1929 | — | — | 157 | #467 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,303 | 161 | #480 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,981 | 194 | #435 |
| 1926 | — | — | 161 | #473 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,147 | 203 | #422 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,256 | 165 | #481 |
| 1923 | — | — | 178 | #458 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,581 | 174 | #468 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,605 | 193 | #443 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,165 | 189 | #442 |
| 1919 | — | — | 193 | #422 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,005 | 120 | #548 |
| 1917 | — | — | 150 | #465 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,591 | 117 | #528 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,890 | 148 | #450 |
| 1914 | — | — | 87 | #529 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,606 | 74 | #504 |
| 1912 | — | — | 56 | #532 |
| 1911 | — | — | 21 | #696 |
| 1910 | — | — | 23 | #604 |
| 1909 | — | — | 18 | #639 |
| 1908 | — | — | 17 | #637 |
| 1907 | — | — | 19 | #566 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,036 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #640 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #620 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #806 |
| 1902 | — | — | 14 | #593 |
| 1901 | — | — | 11 | #647 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #705 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #671 |
| 1898 | — | — | 8 | #824 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #969 |
| 1895 | — | — | 12 | #615 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #982 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #681 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #817 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #844 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #943 |
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).