Denisa
Denisa was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 994 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Denisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Denisa is “a female given name.”
A variant of Denise. By surface analysis, Denis + -a.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Denisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,885, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1964, the peak
Denisa peaked in 1964, when 37 girls were given it, #1,955 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,885 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,915 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,248 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,802 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,975 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,230 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,537 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,471 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,081 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,909 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 11 | #10,309 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,446 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,608 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,893 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,119 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,007 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,397 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,161 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,958 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,667 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,035 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,318 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,821 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,741 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,727 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,647 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,690 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,103 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,804 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,365 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,670 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,771 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,750 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,384 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,914 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,477 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,585 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,012 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,836 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,314 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,940 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,815 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,758 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,385 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,041 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,305 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,981 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,462 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,600 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,316 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,718 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,955 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,356 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,955 | 19.5 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,142 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,219 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,257 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,321 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,412 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,684 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,960 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,740 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,569 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,044 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,539 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,051 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 915 Americans named Denisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 33 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,588 people named Denisa (1,583 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 390,709 babies since 1880, Denisa is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 234 babies recorded by SSA was a Denisa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Denisa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Denisa and names like it
- Compare Denisa and DeniseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDenisa peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Denisa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Denisa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.