Denym is a y-spelling of Denim, the word name for the blue jeans fabric "denim", which comes from the French serge de Nimes, serge from Nimes, after the city in southern France where the cloth was woven. It belongs to the family of rugged modern word names like Maverick and Ryder. Denym had fewer than five births in 2000, climbed from number 7180 in 2015 and reached number 2652 in 2025, its best rank yet, with 49 boys.