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Denisa

Girls' name

Follower of Dionysus, through Denise

Denisa has been given to 994 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Denisa, 2024

1 in 669,000

Denisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Denisa: meaning, origin, and history

Follower of Dionysus, through Denise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Denisa means

Denisa belongs to the name family reached through Denisa → Denise. Its meaning is “follower of Dionysus”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A variant of Denise. By surface analysis, Denis + -a.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Denisa (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Denisa is used in English, Albanian, Czech and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Denise.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Denisa is pronounced [ˈdɛnɪsa].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 994 girls were recorded with the name Denisa between 1952 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,955 in 1964.

How common is Denisa?

Denisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Denisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Denisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Denisa was born before 1974 — so the typical Denisa is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
994
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Denisa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (37)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,955
1964

Spellings of Denisa

Denisa is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 52.0% against Denisa's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Denisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Denisa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,016,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Denisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Denisa around the world

Where Denisa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2018
    #734
    in 2018
  • France
    1998–2025
    #3,492
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Denisa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,955
1964
Peak year
1964
37 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
994
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Denisa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DenaliDenizDenimDenisDeniaDenineParisaDenverDennieDeniyahDenyseDenymAnnisaDenaeNafisaDeneseDenylaDenikaDeniKalisaYulisaDeneanDenniseAnaisa

Sibling names for Denisa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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