As the French feminine form of Denis, Denise also means ‘devoted to Dionysos’. Dionysos was the Greek god of wine, fertility, madness and the theater. His name means ‘God of Nysa’, the name of the region where he was said to have been raised.
Denise is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Denise isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Denise ranks 920. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Denise. In total, there are currently 367,161 people – children, adults and seniors – named Denise living in the United States, which is approximately 0.11 % of the entire population.
As the French feminine form of Denis, Denise also means ‘devoted to Dionysos’. Dionysos was the Greek god of wine, fertility, madness and the theater. His name means ‘God of Nysa’, the name of the region where he was said to have been raised.
Denise was quite popular... in the US from the mid-50s to the mid-60s.
#23 - this is the highest position Denise has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Denise reached this top position was in the last century, in 1956, when 14,538 newborn girls were named Denise. But as our statistics show, Denise has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1901, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Denise is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Denise was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 162 newborns were given the name Denise, making them rank #1,270. Although the name Denise was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Denise are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Denise is one of them. However, Denise is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,586 women called Denise who live here are 0,463% of all female residents and push their name up to #51, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Rhode Island.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Denise is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Denise and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Denise, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Igloo
Sun
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Denise
Denise
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
N
I
S
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
N
I
S
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Denise sounds like this:
