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Denise: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 123 in 2025. Its best rank was #23 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #23 in 1956; #1,677 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Denise in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,677 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #23.
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Denise: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 123 girls in 2025. Peak: #23 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 15,379 (1961).
In 2025, 123 US girls were named Denise, making it the 1,677th most common girls’ name of the year, up 223 places from #1,900 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 105 girls named Denise in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #23, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15,379, in 1961. For comparison, it was #997 in 2015 and #82 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denise in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 374,789 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 129,281 babies named Denise.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,871 US girls were named Denise; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 307. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denise ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,006 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Denis (21,606 babies since 1880), Denisse (7,370 babies since 1880), Dennis (623,692 babies since 1880) and Dennise (3,571 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Denyse, Denisa and Deniese are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dee.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, French and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Denyse (1,329), Denisa (994), Deniese (353), Dionisia (234), Denni (212), Denease (42), Denize (21), Dinese (17), Denysse (6), Dinise (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #1,006 | #556 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,176 | #971 |
| New York | 11 | #1,253 | #897 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,322 | #766 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,419 | #1,381 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,448 | #1,284 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,742 | #1,200 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,225 | 5 | #12,592 |
| 2020 | 307 | #877 | — | — |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2017 | 217 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2016 | 210 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2015 | 270 | #997 | — | — |
| 2014 | 359 | #780 | — | — |
| 2013 | 359 | #757 | — | — |
| 2012 | 411 | #685 | — | — |
| 2011 | 473 | #610 | — | — |
| 2010 | 619 | #488 | — | — |
| 2009 | 692 | #450 | — | — |
| 2008 | 897 | #365 | — | — |
| 2007 | 881 | #371 | — | — |
| 2006 | 853 | #380 | — | — |
| 2005 | 918 | #342 | — | — |
| 2004 | 894 | #354 | — | — |
| 2003 | 957 | #326 | — | — |
| 2002 | 957 | #321 | 6 | #9,669 |
| 2001 | 1,050 | #298 | 11 | #6,120 |
| 2000 | 963 | #329 | 6 | #9,386 |
| 1999 | 965 | #322 | — | — |
| 1998 | 999 | #303 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,074 | #271 | 6 | #8,396 |
| 1996 | 1,230 | #229 | 5 | #9,350 |
| 1995 | 1,301 | #216 | 9 | #6,037 |
| 1994 | 1,391 | #211 | 12 | #4,856 |
| 1993 | 1,458 | #201 | 12 | #4,783 |
| 1992 | 1,628 | #188 | 18 | #3,487 |
| 1991 | 1,746 | #172 | 11 | #4,843 |
| 1990 | 1,955 | #152 | 18 | #3,342 |
| 1989 | 2,034 | #145 | 19 | #3,121 |
| 1988 | 2,064 | #139 | 14 | #3,568 |
| 1987 | 2,104 | #132 | 21 | #2,584 |
| 1986 | 2,205 | #128 | 21 | #2,538 |
| 1985 | 2,433 | #120 | 21 | #2,445 |
| 1984 | 2,461 | #115 | 20 | #2,459 |
| 1983 | 2,570 | #109 | 24 | #2,155 |
| 1982 | 2,896 | #100 | 19 | #2,532 |
| 1981 | 3,201 | #96 | 27 | #2,005 |
| 1980 | 3,145 | #95 | 19 | #2,560 |
| 1979 | 3,267 | #92 | 19 | #2,489 |
| 1978 | 3,519 | #85 | 16 | #2,700 |
| 1977 | 3,681 | #78 | 9 | #3,918 |
| 1976 | 3,986 | #69 | 26 | #1,889 |
| 1975 | 4,461 | #64 | 16 | #2,558 |
| 1974 | 5,395 | #53 | 28 | #1,708 |
| 1973 | 6,615 | #38 | 28 | #1,666 |
| 1972 | 7,382 | #35 | 25 | #1,782 |
| 1971 | 8,219 | #36 | 43 | #1,273 |
| 1970 | 9,343 | #36 | 33 | #1,472 |
| 1969 | 9,798 | #35 | 43 | #1,205 |
| 1968 | 9,877 | #35 | 41 | #1,195 |
| 1967 | 11,078 | #34 | 43 | #1,139 |
| 1966 | 11,797 | #32 | 49 | #1,044 |
| 1965 | 13,036 | #28 | 49 | #1,058 |
| 1964 | 14,726 | #25 | 55 | #1,018 |
| 1963 | 14,092 | #27 | 52 | #1,058 |
| 1962 | 13,975 | #30 | 47 | #1,125 |
| 1961 | 15,379 | #30 | 43 | #1,207 |
| 1960 | 15,066 | #29 | 35 | #1,345 |
| 1959 | 14,662 | #29 | 53 | #1,062 |
| 1958 | 14,959 | #27 | 56 | #1,018 |
| 1957 | 15,145 | #25 | 41 | #1,220 |
| 1956 | 14,509 | #23 | 28 | #1,490 |
| 1955 | 14,560 | #23 | 32 | #1,349 |
| 1954 | 13,716 | #24 | 37 | #1,231 |
| 1953 | 11,950 | #31 | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1952 | 11,652 | #33 | 21 | #1,675 |
| 1951 | 8,116 | #48 | 27 | #1,433 |
| 1950 | 4,514 | #82 | 6 | #3,409 |
| 1949 | 2,236 | #140 | 6 | #3,403 |
| 1948 | 1,930 | #147 | 5 | #3,801 |
| 1947 | 1,699 | #170 | 6 | #3,450 |
| 1946 | 1,585 | #169 | — | — |
| 1945 | 633 | #273 | — | — |
| 1944 | 444 | #322 | — | — |
| 1943 | 462 | #328 | — | — |
| 1942 | 444 | #328 | — | — |
| 1941 | 346 | #358 | — | — |
| 1940 | 326 | #362 | — | — |
| 1939 | 260 | #420 | 5 | #3,609 |
| 1938 | 236 | #436 | — | — |
| 1937 | 255 | #404 | — | — |
| 1936 | 200 | #451 | — | — |
| 1935 | 157 | #511 | — | — |
| 1934 | 125 | #580 | — | — |
| 1933 | 111 | #617 | — | — |
| 1932 | 117 | #607 | — | — |
| 1931 | 102 | #658 | — | — |
| 1930 | 83 | #773 | — | — |
| 1929 | 107 | #679 | — | — |
| 1928 | 88 | #761 | — | — |
| 1927 | 78 | #837 | — | — |
| 1926 | 60 | #964 | — | — |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1924 | 52 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1922 | 53 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1920 | 61 | #931 | — | — |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #940 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).