girls:
3.5k births since 1935
#2941 (49th percentile)
boys:
83 births since 1955
#4503 (2nd percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1935
#4594 (41st percentile)
The name Dennise is the #4,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,549 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 40.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,941 (48.5% percentile) for all time with 3,466 births since 1935. For boys, it ranks #4,503 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1955.
Dennise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for girls and 1955 for boys). Birth data for Dennise is available in 87 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 14 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 Dennise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dennise reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #752) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 39 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dennise ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 20.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dennise reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #648) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dennise".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Dennise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Dennise is pronounced as DEH-nees, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-NEES, at 36.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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