Denis

Denis is the 5,514th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,087 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,087
Rank: 5,514th
How common: 1 in 49,100
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Denis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 41.9%
Black, not Hispanic 33.0%
Hispanic or Latino 21.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Denis

Maurice Denis (1870–1943)French painter
Claire Denis (born 1946)French film director
Germán Denis (born 1981)Argentine association football player
Ruth St. Denis (1879–1968)American dancer
Michael Denis (1729–1800)Austrian entomologist and writer
Modesto Denis (1901–1956)Paraguayan footballer
Ernest Denis (1849–1921)French historian and politician
Harry Dénis (1896–1971)Dutch footballer

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

Surnames like Denis

Also a first name

Denis has been given to 21,606 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1952. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.