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Denyse

Girls' name

Follower of Dionysus, through Denise

Denyse has been given to 1,329 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1956, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Denyse, 2017

1 in 511,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Denyse: meaning, origin, and history

Follower of Dionysus, through Denise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Denyse means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Denyse is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Denise.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,329 girls were recorded with the name Denyse between 1927 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,620 in 1956.

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 Denyse?

Denyse had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Denyse 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denyse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Denyses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Denyse was born before 1965 — so the typical Denyse is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,135
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1960s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (306).

Is Denyse 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 1956 (43)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,620
1956

Spellings of Denyse

Denyse is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 86.1% against Denyse's 0.31%.

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 Denyse is used

Across 1910–2025, Denyse was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 275,967 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Denyse has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Denyse around the world

Where Denyse 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.

  • France
    1901–1964
    #1,432
    in 1964
  • South Australia
    1948–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Denyse 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,620
1956
Peak year
1956
43 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,329
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Denyse

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

DenaliDeniaDenimDenizDenverDenisDenaeDeneseDenisaDenineChayseDenniseDennieEllyseDeniyahDenymDennisDenitaDenylaDenieceDenikaDeniDeneenDenean

Sibling names for Denyse

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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