Denise
Denise is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 105 births. Its best rank was 23rd, in 1955–1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1050.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 196115,381 births
- Best rank
- #23first in 1955
- Since 1882
- 374,664people given the name
The story in the numbers
373,296 girls have been named Denise in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 15,381 births — 0.76% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 105 births in 2024, against 15,381 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 35%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,368 boys have also been given it, 0.37% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Denise | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 58 | |
| 1910s | 203 | |
| 1920s | 633 | |
| 1930s | 1,646 | |
| 1940s | 10,105 | |
| 1950s | 123,783 | |
| 1960s | 128,823 | |
| 1970s | 55,868 | |
| 1980s | 25,114 | |
| 1990s | 13,747 | |
| 2000s | 9,062 | |
| 2010s | 3,317 | |
| 2020s | 919 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Denise was the 30th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Denise
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Denicepeak 1957
- Belindapeak 1961
- Lisepeak 1959
- Taripeak 1959
- Merripeak 1963
- Migdaliapeak 1961
- Brunildapeak 1959
- Lorrypeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.