Dennis
Dennis is ranked 708th among boys in 2024 (376 births). Its best rank was 16th, in 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- #708down 64 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3760.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 195224,552 births
- Best rank
- #16in 1949
- Since 1880
- 623,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
620,615 boys have been named Dennis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 24,552 births — 1.3% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 376 births in 2024, against 24,552 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,691 girls have also been given it, 0.43% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dennis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,107 | |
| 1890s | 919 | |
| 1900s | 988 | |
| 1910s | 4,166 | |
| 1920s | 8,145 | |
| 1930s | 26,366 | |
| 1940s | 162,113 | |
| 1950s | 204,267 | |
| 1960s | 94,983 | |
| 1970s | 50,553 | |
| 1980s | 30,466 | |
| 1990s | 18,100 | |
| 2000s | 10,443 | |
| 2010s | 5,975 | |
| 2020s | 2,024 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Dennis was the 18th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Dennis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garypeak 1952
- Garrypeak 1954
- Ronniepeak 1947
- Larrypeak 1947
- Gareypeak 1952
- Danniepeak 1953
- Brucepeak 1956
- Donniepeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.