Denyse
Denyse was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 1,329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Denyse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 43 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Denyse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Denyse mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Denyse is “a female given name.”
Variant of Denise.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Denyse?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,062, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1956, the peak
Denyse peaked in 1956, when 43 girls were given it, #1,620 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #13,062 | 4.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,951 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,733 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,911 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,701 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,685 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,146 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,895 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,444 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,321 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,995 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,697 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,758 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,326 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,648 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,742 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,135 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,085 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,691 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,551 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,211 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,691 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,168 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,855 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,751 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,626 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,728 | 9.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,331 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,564 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,272 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,535 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,098 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,947 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,638 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,695 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,847 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,589 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,680 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,237 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,066 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,559 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,335 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,102 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,922 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,425 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,928 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,898 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,308 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,452 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,529 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,518 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,291 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,620 | 21.4 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,814 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,846 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,655 | 19.1 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,790 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,809 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,798 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,044 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,750 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,157 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,925 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,003 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,773 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,700 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,316 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,968 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,967 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,981 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,524 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,338 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,851 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,786 | 9.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,007 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,419 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Denyse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Denyse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Denyse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Denyse, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,329 Americans ever recorded as Denyse. The median Denyse alive today is 58 years old; half are between 43 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 1,625 people named Denyse (1,623 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 418 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 355 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 117 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Denyse born?
The states with the most babies named Denyse are California, New York and Massachusetts, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 125 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Denyse with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 390,272 babies since 1880, Denyse is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 234 babies recorded by SSA was a Denyse (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 Denyse
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 Denyse and names like it
- Compare Denyse and DeniseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDenyse peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Denyse since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Denyse.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Denyse alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.