Denver

boys’ name · 83%girls’ name · 17%At its peakCompare

Denver is ranked 486th among boys in 2024 (633 births). Its best rank was 422nd, in 1919, 1925.

Rank in 2024: #486up 24 from 2023
Births in 2024: 6330.04% of boys
Peak year: 2022644 births
Best rank: #422first in 1919
Since 1880: 22,502people given the name

Babies named Denver, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

18,593 boys have been named Denver in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 644 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 2020s alone account for 16%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Denver is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (3,909), most of them born around 2021.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Denver
1880s	18
1890s	51
1900s	136
1910s	989
1920s	1,775
1930s	1,424
1940s	1,498
1950s	1,295
1960s	984
1970s	1,049
1980s	1,036
1990s	1,496
2000s	1,520
2010s	2,337
2020s	2,985

In 2022, its biggest year

Denver was the 481st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Denver

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.