Denys

given name · Ukrainian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Denys is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Voir Denis.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus1 in 124◐
  • RURussia1 in 151
  • CZCzechia1 in 203

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1M ●

across 12 countries

#108 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
575 ●

13M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 165 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ДенисCyrillic · Russian●6.9M records
DennisLatin · English●5.8M records
ᲓენისGeorgian · Georgian●1.2K records
데니스Hangul · Korean●6 records
ডেনিসBengali · Bangla●6 records
ԴենիսArmenian · Armenian●3 records
ΔενηςGreek · Greek●2 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dennis in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 8 more, Денис in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more, Denis in FR France, BR Brazil, CZ Czechia and 2 more and Denisse in MX Mexico, CL Chile, AR Argentina and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Voir Denis.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Denys is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#366,865,8583.1M rec.—#27Денис250
UA Ukraine#581,203,1221.2M rec.—listedДенис110
US United States#81446,9405.9M rec.1 in 744447KDennis575
GB United Kingdom#98343,302352K rec.—23Dennis225
DE Germany#86276,436254K rec.—1Dennis255
FR France#131263,370393K rec.1 in 258263KDenis394
CA Canada#60184,766194K rec.—6Dennis234
PH Philippines#109154,556145K rec.——Dennis166
BR Brazil—154,426△3K rec.1 in 1.4K169KDenis48
AU Australia#146146,652148K rec.—87Dennis229
MX Mexico#38592,70063K rec.—168Denisse209
TR Türkiye#88181,94313K rec.——Денис33

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Ukrainian186K45%
  • Polish104K25%
  • Spanish29K7%
  • Russian26K6%
  • Portuguese26K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Ukrainian186,10845%
Polish104,42025%
Spanish28,7207%
Russian26,1456%
Portuguese25,9416%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Denys is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name59K records spelled Denys17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Dênys, Dènys, Denÿs, Dëńys, Dënys

  • English given name37K records spelled Denys14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Venezuela, Brazil

    Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, German

    Also written De Nys, Dênys

  • Portuguese given name26K records spelled Denys119 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English

    Also written Dionisio, Dionísio, Dionis, Dionysios, Dionisi

  • a separate given name1.7K records spelled Denys2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador

    Also written Dênys

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Denys is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Denis

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0204060196019802000202041 · 2003

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Denys in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1945–2024
Yearrecords
19451
19471
19481
19513
19533
19561
19571
19583
19592
19602
19612
19624
19633
19642
19656
19665
19674
19686
19695
19705
19716
19726
19737
19744
19756
19768
19779
197810
19798
198010
19819
198216
198314
198414
198514
198612
198712
198814
198918
199015
199118
199221
199322
199423
199533
199624
199728
199837
199940
200032
200125
200224
200341
200421
200528
200619
200733
200831
200925
201036
201122
201235
201313
201418
201511
201610
201711
201813
20195
202010
202110
202215
20237
20247

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 74 years between 1945–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Denis Calvaert, b. 1540Denys Lasdun, b. 1914Denys Coop, b. 1920Denys de La Patellière, b. 1921Denys Arcand, b. 1941Denys Shmyhal, b. 1975Denys Monastyrskyi, b. 1980Denys Boyko, b. 1988Denys Harmash, b. 1990Denys Prokopenko, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Denys
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202627K#119
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25K#119
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.7K#897
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082.5K#359
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—2.4K#380
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#5,826
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20201.4K#2,417
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#2,333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#7,934
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—950#9,521
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—931#1,538

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 490 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Denys?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Denys (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Denys have the most bearers?
Denys is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled денис.
How common is Denys compared with other names?
In Russia, Denys is the 36th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Denys a male or female name?
Denys is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Denys mean?
Recorded meaning: Voir Denis.
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Denys” — the 36th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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