Denissa
Denissa was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Denissa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,183, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1980, the peak
Denissa peaked in 1980, when 8 girls were given it, #7,584 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,183 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,798 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,126 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,324 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,181 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,520 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,891 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,677 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,895 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,584 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #7,741 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,263 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,205 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 69 Americans named Denissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Denissa (196 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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).
How common is the spelling Denissa?
Denissa is a less common spelling of Denisa: SSA has recorded 72 Denissa and 994 Denisa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 384,638 babies since 1880, Denissa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 227 babies recorded by SSA was a Denissa (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.
More about Denissa and names like it
- Compare Denissa and DenisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDenissa peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Denissa.
- Names starting with DMost given first.