Denzel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Denzel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Denzel: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #305 in 2003, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#305highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#818
1997	#1010
1998	#850
1999	#1027
2000	#817
2001	#1027
2002	#611
2003	#642
2004	#599
2005	#747
2006	#698
2007	#698
2008	#668
2009	#641
2010	#744
2011	#798
2012	#783
2013	#837
2014	#781
2015	#903
2016	#1050
2017	#906
2018	#1040
2019	#1506
2020	#921
2021	#1184
2022	#862
2023	#770
2024	#685

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #685 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2001–2025
Highest recorded position: #305 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2001–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Denzel appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 929 births with the name.

Denzel across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Denzel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#599 (2004)	#685 (2024)	29 of 29	929 (1996–2024)	53 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#347 (2001)	#305 (2003)	#829 (2025)	16 of 25	68 (2001–2025)	7 (2003)

Denzel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Denzel in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	64	4 of 10	16
2000s	347	10 of 10	35
2010s	332	10 of 10	33
2020sbusiest	186	5 of 10	37

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 37 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Denzel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #305 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Denzel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#685	53	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#770	43	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#862	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1184	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#921	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1040	27	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#906	34	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1050	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#903	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#783	41	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#798	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#744	40	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#641	50	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#668	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#698	40	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#698	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#747	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#599	40	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#642	34	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#611	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1027	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#850	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#508	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#354	7	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#313	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #305, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 53 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 15 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Denver · #243, 31y
Denys · #2921, 10y
Deon · #243, 29y
Dereck · #196, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Divine · #305, 29y
Etain · #305, 29y
Jun · #305, 28y
Malena · #305, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Al · #305, 28y
Divine · #305, 29y
Eathan · #305, 19y
Hafsah · #305, 29y

Denzel was ranked #305 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Denzel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Denzel without appearing here.

Denzel moved ahead of

Gary Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #1253 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #921 and #2076.
Murray Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #1316 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #921 and #1825.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #921 and #1723.
Gerard Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1184 and #1184 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #862 and #1534.

Moved ahead of Denzel

Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #850 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1027 and #655.
Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #678.
Riley Compare
In 2006 they stood at #354 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #629 and #309.
Emil Compare
In 2019 they stood at #508 and #550 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2020 that had become #741 and #459.

Moved the opposite way to Denzel

Archie Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 while Archie went from #409 to #46.
Arthur Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 while Arthur went from #191 to #57.
Caleb Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 while Caleb went from #191 to #108.
Charlie Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 while Charlie went from #115 to #13.

Moved the same way as Denzel

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 and Aaron from #12 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 and Adam from #3 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 and Adrian from #156 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Denzel went from #347 to #829 and Alan from #59 to #232.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #305 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Denzel

Denzel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Denzel across 2 official records

Denzel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Denzel appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Denzel

Denzel and the names beside it

Denzel moved ahead of

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Denzel at a glance

Denzel across 2 official records

Denzel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Denzel appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Denzel

Denzel and the names beside it

Denzel moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Denzel

Moved the opposite way to Denzel

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