Dennise
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- French
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Dennise is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “follower of Dionysus”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Dennise mean?
French: spelling of Denise
“follower of Dionysus”
A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek.
Meaning borrowed from Denise. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Dennise a girl's or a boy's name?
Dennise is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dennise in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Dennise, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2001, with 78 girls. It first appears in the records in 1935.
2025 had fewer girls named Dennise than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Dennise in the US since 1880 were born between 1965 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 234 girls in the US were given Dennise or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #970, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Dennise in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,999 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,690 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,890 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,778 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,453 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,283 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,768 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,464 |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,111 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,899 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,988 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,527 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,325 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,506 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,023 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,183 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,284 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,123 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,851 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,123 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,800 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,269 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,917 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,299 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,656 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,191 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,155 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,581 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,231 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,699 |
| 1979 | 28 | #2,997 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,269 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,266 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,292 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,169 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,961 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,885 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,771 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,772 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,804 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,728 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,678 |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,441 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,796 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,689 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,482 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,622 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,781 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,579 |
| 1960 | 65 | #1,365 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,671 |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,363 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,549 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,580 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,382 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,443 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,502 |
| 1952 | 53 | #1,315 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,636 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,910 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,133 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,415 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,446 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,391 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,597 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,400 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,557 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,213 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,028 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,861 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,427 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,729 |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,202 |
Names like Dennise
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Danielle Nicole Michelle Brooke Noelle Darcy Daphne Jasmine Desiree Paige Heidi Ashley
Other spellings of Dennise
Names related to Dennise
More French names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dennise: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dennise, updated 20 October 2026.