Meaning not yet researched.
Denzel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1993; #1,166 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Denzel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,166 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #311.
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Denzel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 boys in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 864 (1993).
In 2025, 177 US boys were named Denzel, making it the 1,166th most common boys’ name of the year, down 140 places from #1,026 in 2024. That is 40 fewer than the 217 boys named Denzel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #311, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 864. For comparison, it was #1,051 in 2015 and #2,047 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denzel in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 6 babies. In all, 11,779 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,464 babies named Denzel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,802 US boys were named Denzel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 217. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,650 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denzel ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #636 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Denzil (3,843 babies since 1880) and Denzell (1,321 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Danzel, Dencil and Danzell 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: Danzel (614), Dencil (274), Danzell (204), Densil (152), Densel (102), Denzal (64), Denzelle (50), Denzale (32), Denziel (18), Denzyl (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 Denzel 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 7 | #636 | #522 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #727 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #730 | #730 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #783 | #882 |
| Virginia | 8 | #822 | #817 |
| Florida | 16 | #892 | #779 |
| Missouri | 5 | #899 | #853 |
| New York | 14 | #927 | #864 |
| Arizona | 5 | #949 | #809 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,043 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,132 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,140 | #1,044 |
| California | 16 | #1,212 | #1,223 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,248 | #1,123 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 177 | #1,166 |
| 2024 | — | — | 217 | #1,026 |
| 2023 | — | — | 196 | #1,095 |
| 2022 | — | — | 198 | #1,095 |
| 2021 | — | — | 135 | #1,368 |
| 2020 | — | — | 163 | #1,182 |
| 2019 | — | — | 165 | #1,174 |
| 2018 | — | — | 181 | #1,090 |
| 2017 | — | — | 194 | #1,038 |
| 2016 | — | — | 176 | #1,111 |
| 2015 | — | — | 189 | #1,051 |
| 2014 | — | — | 183 | #1,068 |
| 2013 | — | — | 203 | #985 |
| 2012 | — | — | 200 | #993 |
| 2011 | — | — | 155 | #1,156 |
| 2010 | — | — | 180 | #1,072 |
| 2009 | — | — | 202 | #982 |
| 2008 | — | — | 213 | #947 |
| 2007 | — | — | 187 | #1,017 |
| 2006 | — | — | 196 | #950 |
| 2005 | — | — | 201 | #897 |
| 2004 | — | — | 250 | #747 |
| 2003 | — | — | 209 | #834 |
| 2002 | — | — | 253 | #707 |
| 2001 | — | — | 196 | #830 |
| 2000 | — | — | 214 | #776 |
| 1999 | — | — | 182 | #832 |
| 1998 | — | — | 295 | #621 |
| 1997 | — | — | 382 | #524 |
| 1996 | — | — | 464 | #473 |
| 1995 | — | — | 547 | #416 |
| 1994 | — | — | 736 | #335 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,061 | 864 | #311 |
| 1992 | — | — | 767 | #331 |
| 1991 | — | — | 720 | #338 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,774 | 496 | #444 |
| 1989 | — | — | 56 | #1,481 |
| 1988 | — | — | 53 | #1,454 |
| 1987 | — | — | 41 | #1,665 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,114 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,980 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,942 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,954 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,153 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,489 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,177 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,568 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,075 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,364 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,441 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,044 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,394 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,708 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,113 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,384 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,944 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,420 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,093 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,970 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,397 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,071 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,488 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,980 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,928 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,158 |
| 1950 | — | — | 14 | #2,047 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,048 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,360 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,537 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,778 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,611 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,644 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,596 |
| 1942 | — | — | 21 | #1,546 |
| 1941 | — | — | 27 | #1,278 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,712 |
| 1939 | — | — | 18 | #1,586 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,759 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,493 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,331 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,460 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,519 |
| 1933 | — | — | 17 | #1,723 |
| 1932 | — | — | 33 | #1,179 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,870 |
| 1930 | — | — | 28 | #1,372 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,688 |
| 1928 | — | — | 30 | #1,332 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,951 | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1926 | — | — | 36 | #1,197 |
| 1925 | — | — | 24 | #1,544 |
| 1924 | — | — | 26 | #1,499 |
| 1923 | — | — | 31 | #1,308 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,582 | 26 | #1,478 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,269 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,605 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,082 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,006 | 16 | #2,021 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,302 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,636 | 33 | #1,141 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,425 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,750 | 15 | #1,625 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,513 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,584 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,463 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,508 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,148 |
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).