Dénes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Nyilvántartó, 2025
/ˈdeːnɛʃ/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Dénes is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 48Kfew records
- RORomania≈1 in 74Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
8,619 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dénes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
8,619 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dénes 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.
Hungarian form of DENNIS .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dénes Berinkeyb. 1871HUHungarian politician (1871-1944)
- Dénes Kőnigb. 1884HUHungarian mathematician (1884-1944)
- Dénes Dibuszb. 1990HU(1990–) Hungarian association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dénes mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dénes?
- In the etymology graph, Dennis, Denis and Dionisio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dénes?
- In Hungarian /ˈdeːnɛʃ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Dénes?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Dénes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dénes. After it come Brazil, Romania, United States and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dénes most common?
- Dénes is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Dénes a male or female name?
- Dénes is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025).
- How common is the name Dénes?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 8,619 people named Dénes in 2025, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dénes compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Dénes is the 317th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dénes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9nesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Dénes” — the 317th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.