Denice

Where Denice comes from

Denice hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1921
    First appearance
    #4,464 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #411
    442 babies named Denice — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1959
    Denice Denton born
    American academic administrator
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #700.
  5. 1986
    Denice K. born
    Danish pornographic film actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Denice K. · Danish pornographic film actress, born 1986
  • Denice Denton · American academic administrator, 1959–2006
  • Denice D. Lewis · Model, actress, photographer, artist, born 1960
  • Denice Santiago · Military police officer of the State of Bahia and politician, former candidate for mayor of the city of Salvador, born 1972
  • Denice Lam · Hong Kong actress and model, Champion of Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2022, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.