Deniece
Feminine · “Of Dionysus”
Deniece writes its ending the way English writes piece and niece and almost nothing else. That three-letter combination is rare and unmistakable, and putting it on a French name produces a spelling that looks English and French at the same time and belongs properly to neither.
How old is the name Deniece?
Deniece first appears in US birth records in 1932 — 93 years ago. The typical Deniece alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 1,000 people named Deniece are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deniece most popular?
Deniece peaked in 1957, reaching #1705 nationally. See the whole 1957 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Dionysius to Deniece
The story of Deniece
The saint at the head of the name is one of the great head-carriers. Denis was beheaded on the hill in Paris now called Montmartre, and the story says he picked his head up and walked several miles north preaching a sermon before lying down at the spot where the abbey was later built. There is a technical word for a saint depicted this way, and there are quite a number of them, mostly in France; art historians have written whole books about it. The oldest accounts do not include the walk, which was added a few centuries later, and once added it became the only thing anybody remembers about him.
Meaning
Of Dionysus
The French feminine of Denis, which is from the Greek god's name by way of a saint. The wine god's name is at the bottom of it, which the church did not seem to mind. Nothing in the American respelling changes any of that; it alters only which English words the ending resembles.
How the name formed
- Dionysius
- Denis
- Denise
- Deniece
Related forms: Denise
Pronouncing Deniece
duh-NEESE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The ending is said with a plain s, exactly as in niece, which is what the spelling is borrowed from; the French original ends in a z sound.
Nicknames for Deniece
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1932
- Most girls named
- 197938 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1705reached in 1957
- Change vs 2009
- 0.0%5 in 2010, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Deniece in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Denise in French — same name
Denieces among us
people named Deniece are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Deniece sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Final stress gives the name a definite finish and makes it carry when called.
- The spoken name is completely familiar in English and French alike.
- The ending removes the ambiguity about whether the s is voiced.
- Denise is the standard spelling and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The ending spells an English word for a relative, which readers will notice.
- It is strongly dated to the middle of the last century in American records.
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- How many Denieces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Deniece are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Deniece is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Deniece will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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