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Denise

French feminine form of Denis.

PronunciationFrench /də.niz/; English /də.ˈnis/; Dutch /deː.ˈniː.zə/
Usage languagesDutch, English, French, Romanian
US rank (2025)#1,673

Meaning and history

Denise is the French feminine form of Denis.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 853 births, rank #380
2007: 881 births, rank #371
2008: 897 births, rank #365
2009: 692 births, rank #450
2010: 619 births, rank #488
20112011: 473 births, rank #609
2012: 411 births, rank #685
2013: 359 births, rank #755
2014: 359 births, rank #780
2015: 270 births, rank #997
20162016: 210 births, rank #1,188
2017: 217 births, rank #1,141
2018: 239 births, rank #1,065
2019: 162 births, rank #1,383
2020: 307 births, rank #876
20212021: 192 births, rank #1,223
2022: 165 births, rank #1,387
2023: 151 births, rank #1,462
2024: 105 births, rank #1,895
20252025: 123 births, rank #1,673

Denise rose from #997 to #877 for girls between 2015 and 2020. Its highest annual birth count came in 1961, with 15,379 births.