Masterpiece Generator Name Generator
How popular is the name Denzel?
Births per year, rank history and how many Denzels are alive today.
Denzel (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 976th in 2025 with 31 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 53 babies were given the name, the 685th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2009, with 50 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1506 in 2019 before climbing back to the 976th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Denzel is one spelling of a name also recorded as Denzil; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Denzel you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old - or else around 3: the name has two living generations. Half of all Denzels born in England and Wales are between 10 and 24, and there are at least 1,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Denzel - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Denzel.
How many babies are named Denzel each year?
Includes all spellings: Denzel, Denzil. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Denzel spelling rank?
Where does the Denzil spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Denzel most popular?
Denzel peaked in 2009, when 59 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Denzel?
At least 1,200 people named Denzel in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Denzel?
Most living Denzels are between 10 and 24; the most common age is about 18. There is a second cluster around 3.
Is Denzel becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.