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Denisse

#1,886 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Denis

Denisse has been given to 7,370 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #1,886 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Denisse, 2025

1 in 31,900

Denisse over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Denisse: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Denis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Denisse means

Denisse is a feminine form of Denis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Denisse → Denis → Dennis. The family’s meaning is “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Denis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,370 girls were recorded with the name Denisse between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 2020; its best national rank was #835 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #852 in 2020 to #1,886 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,514 in 2015 to #1,886 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Denisse?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,900
104 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,886
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,096 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Denisse 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denisse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Denisses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Denisse was born before 2004 — so the typical Denisse is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,370
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (2,367).

Is Denisse 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
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,034
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−372
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.6%
Peak was 2020 (319)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#835
2002

Spellings of Denisse

Denisse is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 90.6% against Denisse's 1.8%.

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 Denisse is used

Across 2016–2025, Denisse was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 8,906 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,762
  2. 2California1 in 6,250
  3. 3Nevada1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6Arizona1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Maryland1 in 12,500

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.

Notable people named Denisse

People whose public names include Denisse, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Denisse in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Denisse. Linked forms have their own page here.

DenisaDeniseDenyseDionisiaDionysia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Denisse by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,886
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,034
Best rank ever
#835
2002
Peak year
2020
319 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,370
Count in 2025
104

Names similar to Denisse

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

DenniseDenverDenishaDennisseDenaliDeniceDenaeDeneenDeniyahDenitaDennisDenieceDeniaJesseDeneshaDenimIvelisseClarisseDeneseCharisseDenasiaAlysseDenizDenette

Names with a curve like Denisse

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Denisse, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Denisse

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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