Popularity of the last name by country

United States

• Louisiana (179)
• New York (172)
• Maryland (144)
• Massachusetts (66)
• Michigan (51)
• Pennsylvania (34)
• California (26)
• Wisconsin (24)
• Maine (19)
• New Jersey (18)
• Texas (16)
• Connecticut (14)
• Hawaii (9)
• Illinois (8)
• Virginia (8)
• Colorado (7)
• Iowa (7)
• Mississippi (7)
• Alabama (6)
• Kansas (6)
• New Mexico (5)
• Ohio (4)
• Minnesota (3)
• Missouri (3)
• Nebraska (2)
• Utah (2)
• West Virginia (2)
• Arizona (1)
• Alaska (1)
• Florida (1)
• Georgia (1)
• Idaho (1)
• Indiana (1)
• Kentucky (1)
• North Carolina (1)
• New Hampshire (1)
• Oklahoma (1)
• South Carolina (1)
• Tennessee (1)
• Washington (1)
• Wyoming (1)

All countries

• France (124,767)
• Belgium (58,316)
• Canada (4,560)
• United Kingdom (4,503)
• United States (943)
• Netherlands (393)
• Switzerland (334)
• Germany (303)
• Unknown country (227)
• Italy (126)
• Algeria (101)
• Austria (92)
• Luxembourg (64)
• Spain (58)
• Ireland (54)
• Mexico (51)
• Poland (50)
• St. Pierre and Miquelon (39)
• Haiti (30)
• El Salvador (28)
• India (24)
• Guadeloupe (23)
• Australia (22)
• Martinique (18)
• Turkey (11)
• Brazil (10)
• Morocco (10)
• New Zealand (10)
• Denmark (9)
• Hungary (9)
• Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (8)
• Sweden (8)
• Viet Nam (8)
• Malaysia (7)
• China (6)
• Congo-Kinshasa (6)
• Greece (6)
• Panama (6)
• Réunion (6)
• Russian Federation (6)

Origine of last name

DENYS : 1: Flemish and French: from a variant of the personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Denis">Denis</a>.2: Polish Rusyn and Ukrainian: from the personal name Denys an equivalent of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Dennis">Dennis</a>. In some cases this may also be an American shortened form of patronymics from the personal name Denys such as Ukrainian Denysenko and Denysevych Polish Denysiewicz.