Meaning not yet researched.
Dennise: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,321 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,321 in 1952; #12,230 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dennise in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,230 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #1,321.
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Dennise: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,321 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 78 (2001).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Dennise, making it the 12,230th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,897 places from #7,333 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 15 girls named Dennise in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,321, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 78, in 2001. For comparison, it was #8,579 in 2015 and #1,919 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dennise in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 3,571 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 644 babies named Dennise.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 128 US girls were named Dennise; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dennis (623,692 babies since 1880), Denise (374,789 babies since 1880), Denis (21,606 babies since 1880) and Denisse (7,370 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Dennise in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,230 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,741 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,792 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,766 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,399 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,281 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,827 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,277 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,579 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,788 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,308 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,755 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,134 | 5 | #8,440 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,198 | 5 | #6,553 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,277 | 5 | #6,034 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,297 | 6 | #5,300 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,302 | 6 | #5,083 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,965 | 10 | #3,384 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,892 | 5 | #5,277 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,774 | 6 | #4,565 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,736 | 7 | #3,678 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,697 | 6 | #3,623 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,581 | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1960 | 65 | #1,367 | 6 | #3,756 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,677 | 5 | #4,129 |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,389 | 6 | #3,590 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1952 | 53 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,361 | — | — |
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).