Dènis

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dènis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 127as Денис(inferred from the name graph)
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 156as Денис
  • CZCzechia1 in 203as Denisa

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dènis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100,000 named Денис, est.

#56 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
633 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 165 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ДенисCyrillic(measured from records)
DennisLatin(measured from records)
ԴենիսArmenian(measured from records)
დენისGeorgian(measured from records)
ডেনিসBengali(measured from records)
데니스Hangul(measured from records)
ΔενηςGreek(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Денис in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Dennis in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia, Denisse in BR Brazil and Denis in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Dènis: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dènis
  1. LatinDionȳsius(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΔιονύσιοςDionúsios(measured from records)

Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Russian Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dènis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dènis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#36≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 127#27Денис278
US United States#83448,312as Dennis1 in 742447KDennis633
PH Philippines#84≈200,000 est.≈1 in 546—Dennis180
UA Ukraine#61≈160,000 est.≈1 in 283listedДенис125
BR Brazil—154,426as Denise1 in 1.4K169KDenisse45
BY Belarus#34≈61,000 est.≈1 in 15690Денис69
CZ Czechia#10552,598as Denisa1 in 20353KDennis118
MD Moldova#34720,4081 in 16520KDenis47

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dènis is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, France

    Also written Denis, Ďeňiş, Dêñis, Dêñïs, Dèñîs

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dènis under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dènis mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
Is Dènis a male or female name?
Dènis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Dènis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Денис in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Dènis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dènis is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 165 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dènis?
In Moldova, the national register counted 20,408 people named Dènis, about 1 in 165 residents.
How common is Dènis compared with other names?
In Russia, Dènis is the 36th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dènis” — the 36th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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