Denys — unisex name

What the Data Says About Denys

The Social Security Administration has registered 426 babies named Denys between 1947 and 2010, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Denys currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Denys is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 206 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Denys performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Denys shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Denys in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Denys in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 426 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.