Denica
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dənɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Denica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 54K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 338K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
288 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Denica 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 | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 287 | Denica | 139 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 784K | — | Denica | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Denica | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 803K | — | Denica | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Denica | 31 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 724K | — | Denica | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Denica | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | Denica | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 762K | — | Denica | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 7 | — | — |
288 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Denica is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Deņica, Sarjankas pieteka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Denica Fairmanb. 1962CACanadian actress
- Denitsa Sachevab. 1973BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician
- Denica Petcovab. 1981BGbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 287 | #30,312 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 14 | #580 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Denica?
- In the etymology graph, Danica and Danika are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Denica?
- A machine transcription gives /dənɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Denica a male or female name?
- Denica 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 Denica have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 288 people named Denica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled denica.
- Where is Denica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Denica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Denica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Denica in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Denica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denicaThe 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, “Denica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.