Denisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Denisha has been given to 4,306 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1994, with 302 recorded.
Babies named Denisha, 2023
1 in 474,000
Denisha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Denisha?
Denisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Denisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Denishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Denisha was born before 1991 — so the typical Denisha is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 41.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,306
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (1,775).
Is Denisha 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (302)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Denisha
Denisha is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 72.2% against Denisha's 0.83%.
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 Denisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Denisha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 51,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 33,333
- 3Georgia1 in 33,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 5Michigan1 in 33,333
- 6Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 7North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 8Alabama1 in 50,000
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. Denisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Denisha around the world
Where Denisha 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 & Wales1996–2017#5,765in 2017
- Canada1993–2010#3,238in 2010
- South Australia1993–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Denisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Denisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Denisha
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Denisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Denisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.