Given name
Deniss
Deniss is a masculine given name from Russian. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deniss through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 5 boys · 82 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 351 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deniss’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Deniss shares a linguistic root with the English form Dennis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deniss
- Deniss VasiļjevsLatvian figure skater (born 1999)
- Deniss RakelsLatvian footballer (born 1992)
- Deniss IvanovsLatvian association football player (born 1984)
- Deniss KačanovsLatvian footballer (born 1979)
- Deniss ČerkovskisLatvian modern pentathlete (born 1978)
- Deniss TjapkinEstonian association football player (born 1991)
- Deniss KarpakEstonian sailor (born 1986)
- Deniss MeļņiksLatvian association football playerborn 2002
- Deniss SmirnovsLatvian ice hockey player (born 1999)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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