Denim

What Denim means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Denim yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #880 vs #5,137 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Denim?

US: Rising: up from #1625 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #4747 in 2015, #5137 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 271 boys got the name (#880 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 6,303 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in LA (1.1 per 1,000 boys), MS (0.83 per 1,000 boys), GA (0.66 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Denim is #880 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 72.8% of US babies named Denim were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Denym49 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Denim

Boys

• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Jaxson#156Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 13 babies
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

For a sister

• Lennon#214“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*
• Adalyn#260Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Denim’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.