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)
The name Denis is the #1,744 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,389 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #807 (82.4% percentile) for all time with 20,530 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,857 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 859 births since 1938.
Denis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1938 for girls). Birth data for Denis is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for boys and 72 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Denis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Denis reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 56.2% percentile (ranked #269) with 313 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 313 births per million (ranked 56.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Denis ranks #803 for boys (11.9% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Denis reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #955) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Denis".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Denis", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Dennis" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Dennis..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Denis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Denis is pronounced as DEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-nuhs, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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