girls:
68 births since 1915
#5648 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1897
#2017 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1897
#4431 (43rd percentile)
The name Denzil is the #4,431 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,842 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 42.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,017 (56.0% percentile) for all time with 3,774 births since 1897. For girls, it ranks #5,648 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 1915.
Denzil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Denzil is available in 114 out of the 124 years between 1897 and 2020 (114 years for boys and 11 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 Denzil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Denzil reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 17.4% percentile (ranked #433) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 88 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Denzil reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #555) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Denzil".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Denzil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Denzil is pronounced as DEHN-zuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEHN-zihl, at 45.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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