Denys
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Voir Denis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɛˌnɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Denys 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.
- PLPoland1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 127as Денис
- BYBelarus≈1 in 156as Денис
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 Denys 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)
- #56 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 633 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Денис, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dennis in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia and 1 more, Денис in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, 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)
Voir Denis.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Denys 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #36 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 127 | #27 | Денис | 278 |
| US United States | #83 | 448,312as Dennis | 1 in 742 | 447K | Dennis | 633 |
| PH Philippines | #84 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 546 | — | Dennis | 180 |
| UA Ukraine | #61 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | listed | Денис | 125 |
| BR Brazil | — | 154,426as Denise | 1 in 1.4K | 169K | Denisse | 45 |
| BY Belarus | #34 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 156 | 90 | Денис | 69 |
| CZ Czechia | #105 | 52,598as Denisa | 1 in 203 | 53K | Dennis | 118 |
| PL Poland | #179 | 27,086 | 1 in 1.4K | 27K | Dennis | 117 |
| MD Moldova | #347 | 20,408as Denis | 1 in 165 | 20K | Denis | 47 |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Denys 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 English, A male given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Denis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Denis Calvaertb. 1540BEnot in their usual nameFlemish-Italian painter (1540-1619)
- Denys Lasdunb. 1914GBBritish architect (1914–2001)
- Denys Coopb. 1920GBBritish cinematographer (1920-1981)
- Denys de La Patellièreb. 1921FRFrench film director and scriptwriter (1921–2013)
- Denys Arcandb. 1941CACanadian film director
- Denys Shmyhalb. 1975UAUkrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2020–2025)
- Denys Monastyrskyib. 1980UAUkrainian lawyer and politician (1980–2023)
- Denys Boykob. 1988UAUkrainian footballer
- Denys Harmashb. 1990UAUkrainian footballer
- Denys Prokopenkob. 1991UAUkrainian military officer
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 84 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 27K | #119 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25K | #119 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #7,934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 950 | #9,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 520 | #7,934 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 68 | #1,132 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 56 | #1,805 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 38 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #5,826 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 does the name Denys mean, and where does it come from?
- Voir Denis. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- How do you pronounce Denys?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛˌnɪs/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Denys a male or female name?
- Denys 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.
- What are other forms of the name Denys?
- In the etymology graph, Dennis, Denis and Dionisio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Denys 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 Denys most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Denys is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Denys?
- In Poland, the national register counted 27,086 people named Denys in 2026, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Denys compared with other names?
- In Russia, Denys is the 36th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Denys?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denysThe 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, “Denys” — the 36th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.