Denish
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Denish is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 17K
- UGUganda≈1 in 24K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Denish 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Denish | 6 |
| UG Uganda | #828 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Denish | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Denish | 13 |
| US United States | — | 121 | 1 in 2.7M | 116 | Denish | 104 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 939K | — | Denish | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 558K | — | Denish | 32 |
| GY Guyana | — | 45 | 1 in 17K | 45 | Denish | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Diane Denishb. 1949USAmerican politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 113 | #136,783 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 104 | #153,590 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Is Denish a male or female name?
- Denish is a male 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 Denish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Denish in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled denish.
- How common is the name Denish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121 people named Denish in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Denish compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Denish is the 828th most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Denish?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denishThe 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, “Denish” — the 828th most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.