girls:
373.2k births since 1882
#96 (98th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1939
#3260 (29th percentile)
overall:
374.6k births since 1882
#189 (98th percentile)
The name Denise is the #189 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 374,554 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 97.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #96 (98.3% percentile) for all time with 373,186 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #3,260 (28.9% percentile) for all time with 1,368 births since 1939.
Denise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1939 for boys). Birth data for Denise is available in 126 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (126 years for girls and 56 years for boys). 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 Denise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Denise reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 97.1% percentile (ranked #23) with 7,045 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 7,524 births per million (ranked 96.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Denise ranks #802 for girls (15.3% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Denise reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #614) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 27 births per million (ranked 7.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Denise".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Denise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.2% confident that Denise is pronounced as duh-NEES, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-NEEZ, at 23.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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