Denis

girls:

859 births since 1938

#4857 (15th percentile)

boys:

20.5k births since 1880

#807 (82nd percentile)

overall:

21.4k births since 1880

#1744 (77th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Denis".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
859
Peak Births
34
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1938
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#587
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
20,530
Peak Births
618
Peak Year
1952
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
56.2%
Current Percentile
11.9%
Peak Rank
#182
Current Rank
#803
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Denis

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Denis. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.8% confident that Denis is pronounced as DEH-nihs. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-nuhs, at 12.2% confidence.

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87.8%
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12.2%
DEH-nuhs (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
D EH1 N AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Denis. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Denis, please vote using the thumbs up button.

deh-NIHS (2 syllables)
7 names 12.6k births
D EH0 N IH1 S

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D EH1 N IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.