Denise is the French feminine form of Denis, which goes back to the Greek Dionysios, "devoted to Dionysus", the god of wine. It was a top 30 name for American girls in the late 1950s and 1960s. Denise still ranked number 329 in 2000, peaked in this century at number 298 in 2001, has drifted in and out of the top 1000 since 2015, last inside it in 2020, and ranks number 1677 in 2025 with 123 girls.