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Denis vs Denisse

American parents have registered 21,606 Denises since 1880, against 7,370 Denisses. But in 2025 it was Denisse that was commoner, 104 babies to 101.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Denis against Denisse, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Denis Denisse

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 141 years in which either name was published, Denis for 105 years and Denisse for 36 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Denis Denisse
Total US births 21,6067,370
Most in one year 625319
Babies in 2025 101104
Estimated living today 15,0007,300
Median age today 5721
Peak year 19522020
Best rank 277th boys852nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,708th1,880th
First recorded 18801954
Girls / boys 873 / 20,7337,370 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Denises alive today are over 57; half the Denisses are over 21. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Denis and Denisse.