Denise Surname
Approximately 27,923 people bear this surname
Denise Surname Definition:
For Deneys or Le Danois; a Danish family whose pedigree was traced from Jellanus Dacus, Lord of Pancras Weck in Devonshire, temp. Hen. II. Another, Robert Dacus, or Le Daneys, held of the Abbey of Tavistock in 1165 (Liber Niger): and there is a previous mention of Hugh Daniscus or Daneis in the Pipe Rolls of 1130.
Read More About This SurnameDenise Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 12,998 | 1:1,046 | 189 |
| United States | 3,042 | 1:119,152 | 12,771 |
| Rwanda | 2,791 | 1:4,072 | 1,005 |
| France | 1,810 | 1:36,698 | 4,510 |
| Angola | 1,775 | 1:15,205 | 1,826 |
| DR Congo | 1,703 | 1:43,382 | 5,276 |
| Cameroon | 1,317 | 1:15,770 | 2,150 |
| New Zealand | 536 | 1:8,448 | 1,458 |
| Australia | 302 | 1:89,390 | 10,284 |
| Brazil | 267 | 1:801,777 | 29,074 |
| Nigeria | 253 | 1:700,169 | 32,315 |
| Canada | 167 | 1:220,632 | 21,263 |
| England | 133 | 1:418,933 | 28,433 |
| Ivory Coast | 105 | 1:219,726 | 9,142 |
| Kenya | 101 | 1:457,227 | 24,042 |
| Israel | 67 | 1:127,726 | 13,864 |
| Belgium | 52 | 1:221,089 | 28,230 |
| Portugal | 47 | 1:221,665 | 8,706 |
| Seychelles | 41 | 1:2,253 | 462 |
| Singapore | 34 | 1:161,991 | 6,884 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| Ethiopia | 25 | 1:3,901,850 | 10,182 |
| Germany | 19 | 1:4,237,129 | 172,669 |
| Indonesia | 19 | 1:6,960,484 | 292,931 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| Ireland | 18 | 1:261,608 | 9,673 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| Burundi | 16 | 1:612,803 | 644 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Switzerland | 11 | 1:746,629 | 49,719 |
| Italy | 10 | 1:6,115,669 | 111,715 |
| Spain | 10 | 1:4,675,204 | 78,608 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Haiti | 8 | 1:1,335,488 | 14,216 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4 | 1:340,994 | 12,383 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Chile | 3 | 1:5,872,158 | 52,204 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1:1,881,572 | 67,227 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 10 | 1:442,987 | 15,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 235 | 1:213,697 | 18,312 |
The alternate forms: Denisé (1) are calculated separately.
Denise (1,662,822) may also be a first name.
Denise Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
For Deneys or Le Danois; a Danish family whose pedigree was traced from Jellanus Dacus, Lord of Pancras Weck in Devonshire, temp. Hen. II. Another, Robert Dacus, or Le Daneys, held of the Abbey of Tavistock in 1165 (Liber Niger): and there is a previous mention of Hugh Daniscus or Daneis in the Pipe Rolls of 1130. They bore, in honour of their origin, three Danish battle-axes erect Or: the terrible hatchet of their forefathers,It was with this “hache Danoise” that the Norse champion in Harold Hardrada’s army held Derwent Bridge, single-handed, for two hours against the whole Saxon force. Our English Harold performed prodigies of valour with it at the battle of Hastings. It had been introduced into England by Canute; and Freeman tells us “the Norman writers seem almost to shudder at the remembrance” of so fearful a weapon. that, with its double handle and two-foot blade, could bear down all before it. They spread over Devonshire in such numerous divisions and sub-divisions as almost to attain the proportions of a clan; yet one by one all these possessions, mostly derived from heiresses, passed away as they had come. The two principal branches were seated at “Orleigh, in the parish of Buckland Brewer, the long contynewed dwellinge of the family”; and at Holcombe Burnell; but we also find them at Bicton, Holsworthy, Manworthy, and Gidecot, Whimple, Windey Cross, Malcot, Colliscombe, &c.; and for some time at Creed and Menhiot in Cornwall, where, Sir William Pole tells us, “the patrimony of Daunay of Sheviocke came in time to Dennis of Orleigh and Crocker." The direct line from Jellanus Dacus ended in the fifth descent with Sir Robert le Deneys; that of Orleigh was carried on till about 1700, and the co-heiresses married Sir Thomas Hamson and Glynn of Glynn. The house of Holcombe Burnell did not last so long, but would seem to have been the most important of the two. Sir Thomas, the grandfather of the last heir, was, by Sir William Pole’s account, nine times Sheriff of the county during the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Philip and Mary; and his son Sir Robert was “the worthie Knight who, anno 1592, erected a fair Aimes house, in the suburbs of Exeter, for twelve poor aged Men, allowing to each a plot of grounde for an Herber, and Twelve-pence weekly. This Family, so ancient in this County (deriving its Name and Original from the Danes) is now extinct: the Heire-general being married into the house of the Rolles.”—Fuller's Worthies. It had become extinct with Sir Robert’s son Sir Thomas, who married a daughter of the Marquess of Winchester, and left two co-heiresses, married to Sir Henry Rolle and Sir Arthur Mainwaring. Almost all the remaining branches were, in like manner, successively merged; and the famous Danish battle-axes are now quartered by many different families. Yet when Lysons wrote, in 1822, there was still a male representative of the Whimple branch; and an apothecary of the name, practising at Tavistock, claimed descent from that of Windey Cross.
The family had spread into the adjacent counties. They held Sock-Dennis, in Somersetshire, under the Barons Beauchamp of Hacche. “In the time of Henry II. and Richard I., Osbert and William Dacus, or Le Deneys, were Keepers of Petherton Park in this county; the former of whom had issue, Ralph, who 12 Hen. III. held half a knight’s fee of William de Mohun. The hospital of White Hall (de Alba Aula, or Blanche Sale) was founded about 1226 by William Dennis, and endowed with lands and tenements in Ivelchester, Sock- Dennis, and Taunton, for the entertainment of pilgrims and poor travellers.”— Collinson's Somerset. Wroxhall-Deneys, in Dorsetshire, “took its name from its most ancient lords, who became extinct there in the time of Edward II.”— Hutchins' Dorset.
Denise Demographics
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Denise Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Denise Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Denise (Marathi: डेिनस, Russian: Денисе) occurs in Chad more than any other country or territory. It may also appear as a variant: Denisé. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Denise? popularity and diffusion
It is the 19,648th most numerous last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 260,987 people. The last name Denise occurs mostly in Africa, where 76 percent of Denise reside; 51 percent reside in West Africa and 49 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Denise is also the 416th most commonly used first name at a global level, borne by 1,662,822 people.
It is most frequently used in Chad, where it is borne by 12,998 people, or 1 in 1,046. Outside of Chad Denise is found in 101 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 11 percent are found and Rwanda, where 10 percent are found.
Denise Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Denise has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Denise last name rose 1,294 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 4,433 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it rose 180 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Denise Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Denise surname is predominantly Catholic (100%) in Ireland and Christian (100%) in Kenya.
In The United States Denise are 7.9% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 54.67% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Denise earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 83.65% less than the national average, earning R 38,856 per year; in United States they earn 11.7% less than the national average, earning $38,101 USD per year and in Canada they earn 18.1% less than the national average, earning $40,688 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Denise Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Denise in the Marathi language | ||
| डेिनस | deinasa | 31.58 |
| डेनीस | denisa | 15.79 |
| देिनसे | deinase | 10.53 |
| डेनेस | denesa | 5.26 |
| िडनीश | idanisa | 5.26 |
| डेनीसे | denise | 5.26 |
| देिनस | deinasa | 5.26 |
| डेनील | denila | 5.26 |
| िदनीश | idanisa | 5.26 |
| डेनीझ | denijha | 5.26 |
| िडनीस | idanisa | 5.26 |
| Denise in the Russian language | ||
| Денисе | denise | - |
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