Deniz
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Yer kabuğunun çukur bölümlerini kaplayan, birbiriyle bağlantılı, tuzlu, büyük su kütlesi
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2020): listed as male
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed under both sexes
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/de.niz/(recorded in a dictionary) Turkish · from Wiktionary
Deniz is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Cyprus it is the 61st most common given name.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 400(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 500
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.2Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 399 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Yer kabuğunun çukur bölümlerini kaplayan, birbiriyle bağlantılı, tuzlu, büyük su kütlesi. 2. Çok, bol.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Deniz, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Deniz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #107 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | 2.3K | Deniz | 177 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Deniz | 20 |
| CY Cyprus | #61 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 399 | — | Deniz | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | #806 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 1.1K | Deniz | 82 |
| US United States | — | 2,350 | 1 in 142K | 1.7K | Deniz | 263 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 887 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | #568 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 218 | Deniz | 58 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Deniz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Deniz är ett turkiskt namn, identiskt med ordet deniz ’hav’. Det används för både män och kvinnor.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Del mar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Deniz Baykalb. 1938TRTurkish attorney and statesperson (1938–2023)
- Deniz Hümmetb. 1996TRTurkish association football player (born 1996)
- Deniz Undavb. 1996DEGerman association football 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)89 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Deniz a male or female name?
- Deniz is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2020): listed as male; France (INSEE, 2024): listed under both sexes; Brazil (IBGE): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Deniz mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Yer kabuğunun çukur bölümlerini kaplayan, birbiriyle bağlantılı, tuzlu, büyük su kütlesi.
- How do you pronounce Deniz?
- In Turkish /de.niz/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Deniz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 173 thousand people named Deniz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deniz. After it come Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Netherlands and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Deniz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,350 people named Deniz in 2020, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is Deniz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Deniz is the 107th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Deniz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denizThe 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, “Deniz” — the 107th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.