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Denisa

About 994 American babies have been named Denisa since 1952, most of them around 1964. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 920 Denisas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Denisa

By the numbers

Total US births
994
Estimated living today
920
Median age today
50
Peak year
1964
Best rank
1,947th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1952

How old the living Denisas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 994 babies given the name since 1952, about 920 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

A variant of Denise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Denisas

People named Denisa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Denisa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Denisa is most concentrated in Texas (8.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1964

The most popular girls’ names the year Denisa peaked:

All the names of 1964

Denisa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Denisa 767
England and Wales girls Denisa 449 1,172nd
France girls Denisa 290 1,962nd
Ireland girls Denisa 94 410th
Belgium girls Denisa 78 800th
Poland girls Denisa 20 birth registrations 325th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Denisa: rank by region

In 2019, Denisa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Denisa 800 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Denisa by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 4 544th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Denisa among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Denisa 16 19

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Denisa lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 548 women called Denisa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Guadalajara Denisa 10 0.071 902
Lleida Denisa 15 0.067 1,024
Cuenca Denisa 6 0.061 987
Girona Denisa 23 0.056 1,190
Toledo Denisa 20 0.053 1,102
Castellón/Castelló Denisa 16 0.051 1,211

Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Denisa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.