Denaly
Girl · deh-NAH-lee · Native American
Denaly is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “the high one”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Denaly mean?
Native American: spelling of Denali; Koyukon Athabaskan name of Alaska's highest mountain
“the high one”
Denali is the Koyukon name for North America's highest peak, in Alaska, and also names the surrounding national park.
- Say it
- deh-NAH-lee
Meaning borrowed from Denali.
Is Denaly a girl's or a boy's name?
Denaly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Denaly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Denaly, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Denaly in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 83 girls in the US were given Denaly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,925, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Denali 78
- Denaly 5
Denaly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
Names like Denaly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Denaly
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