Denzil
Recorded 1897–2020 · United States
Denzil was most popular in 1937, when 96 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,254 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,843 people named Denzil.
Denzil over time
How old is the name Denzil?
Denzil first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1897, which makes it about 128 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 114 of the 129 years since.
How many people are named Denzil?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,843 American births named Denzil between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,573 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Denzil in 2025?
Denzil was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Denzil getting more or less popular?
Denzil is out of use. It averaged 8 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Denzil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Denzil is a boy’s name — 1.8% of the 3,843 Americans given it were girls and 98.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Denzil?
Roughly 1,573 Americans named Denzil are alive today — 41% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 39 and 75. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Denzil is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org