Denies
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/ɗenies/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Denies is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 58K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 465K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 620K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Denies 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 833K | — | Denies | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Denies | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Denies | 6 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 913K | — | Denies | 5 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Denies | 68 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 41 | Denies | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | Denies | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Denies 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, third-person singular simple present indicative of deny
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)- Isaac Deniesb. 1647NLDutch artist, 1647-1690
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 41 | #34,612 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Denies?
- A machine transcription gives /ɗenies/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Denies a male or female name?
- Denies 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 Denies have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 257 people named Denies in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled denies.
- Where is Denies most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Denies is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Denies?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Denies, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Denies?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deniesThe 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, “Denies”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.