Denisha
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Denisha by the numbers
Denisha was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 302 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Denisha
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Denisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Danishagod is my judge; a feminine form of Daniel13 in the US (2017)
- Denisafollower of dionysus; a form of denise9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Delisha8 in the US (2017)
- Denisefollower of Dionysus; feminine form of Denis215 in the US (2017)
- Denissefollower of dionysus; a form of Denise111 in the US (2017)
- Deekshainitiation or consecration20 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Denisha
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