Dénise
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dénise is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Denise, from French Denise, from Latin Dionysia, feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus".
- JMJamaica≈1 in 441(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 489
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 610
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 Dénise 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #222 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 622 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 441 (inferred from the name graph)
327,824 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Denise in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Denisa in CZ Czechia, RO Romania.
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)
- EnglishDenise(measured from records)
- FrenchDenise(measured from records)
- LatinDionysia(measured from records)
From English Denise, from French Denise, from Latin Dionysia, feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus".
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dénise 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #96 | 327,824 | 1 in 1K | 327K | Denise | 622 |
| BR Brazil | — | 154,426 | 1 in 1.4K | 169K | — | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | #108 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 610 | listed | Denise | 316 |
| IT Italy | #259 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 959 | 142 | Denise | 129 |
| CA Canada | #98 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | 1 | Denise | 284 |
| CZ Czechia | #82 | 52,598as Denisa | 1 in 203 | 53K | Denisa | 129 |
| RO Romania | #348 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 549 | — | Denisa | 75 |
| IE Ireland | #64 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 489 | — | Denise | 142 |
| JM Jamaica | #4 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 441 | — | Denise | 29 |
327,824 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dénise mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Denise, from French Denise, from Latin Dionysia, feminine form of Dionysius, a male name of Ancient Greek origin indicating "Dedication to Dionysus". Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
- Is Dénise a male or female name?
- Dénise is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dénise have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 328 thousand people named Dénise, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled denise.
- How common is the name Dénise?
- In the United States, the national register counted 327,824 people named Dénise in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Dénise compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dénise is the 96th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dénise?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9niseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Dénise” — the 96th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.