girls:
3.5k births since 1913
#2901 (49th percentile)
boys:
18k births since 1880
#858 (81st percentile)
overall:
21.5k births since 1880
#1739 (78th percentile)
The name Denver is the #1,739 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,500 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #858 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 17,953 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,901 (49.2% percentile) for all time with 3,547 births since 1913.
Denver has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1913 for girls). Birth data for Denver is available in 133 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 58 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Denver has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 61.8% of babies named Denver were boys.
For boys, Denver reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 53.7% percentile (ranked #428) with 344 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 344 births per million (ranked 53.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Denver ranks #454 for boys (50.2% percentile) with 318 births per million, which is 92.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Denver reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #596) with 204 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 206 births per million (ranked 35.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Denver is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #612 (35.4% percentile) with 206 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Denver".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Denver. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Denver is pronounced as DEHN-ver, which has 2 syllables.
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