Meaning not yet researched.
Denisse: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #835 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #835 in 2002; #1,886 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Denisse in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,886 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #835.
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Denisse: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 girls in 2025. Peak: #835 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 319 (2020).
In 2025, 104 US girls were named Denisse, making it the 1,886th most common girls’ name of the year, up 73 places from #1,959 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 101 girls named Denisse in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #835, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 319, in 2020. For comparison, it was #1,514 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denisse in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 7 babies. In all, 7,370 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,367 babies named Denisse.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,377 US girls were named Denisse; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 319. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Denisse ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #827 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Denise (374,789 babies since 1880), Denis (21,606 babies since 1880), Dennise (3,571 babies since 1880) and Denese (1,588 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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.
No nicknames listed for Denisse in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 8 | #827 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #944 | #726 |
| Texas | 30 | #960 | #968 |
| New York | 9 | #1,436 | #1,084 |
| California | 15 | #1,513 | #1,004 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2021 | 169 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 2020 | 319 | #852 | — | — |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 2015 | 149 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2014 | 147 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 2012 | 151 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 2011 | 132 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2009 | 219 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 2008 | 278 | #962 | — | — |
| 2007 | 256 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2005 | 250 | #979 | — | — |
| 2004 | 227 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 2003 | 248 | #947 | — | — |
| 2002 | 279 | #835 | — | — |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1998 | 191 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1997 | 194 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1996 | 207 | #936 | — | — |
| 1995 | 179 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1994 | 195 | #953 | — | — |
| 1993 | 165 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1991 | 161 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1989 | 145 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1987 | 169 | #954 | — | — |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,008 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,304 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,651 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,075 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,663 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,588 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,144 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,289 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,141 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,776 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,762 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,118 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,828 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,801 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,773 | — | — |
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).