Denny
Denny is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 325th, in 1946–1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1947440 births
- Best rank
- #325first in 1946
- Since 1889
- 15,793people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,391 boys have been named Denny in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 440 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1940s alone account for 20%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 402 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Denny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 26 | |
| 1910s | 157 | |
| 1920s | 458 | |
| 1930s | 1,250 | |
| 1940s | 3,011 | |
| 1950s | 2,693 | |
| 1960s | 2,447 | |
| 1970s | 1,941 | |
| 1980s | 1,223 | |
| 1990s | 895 | |
| 2000s | 707 | |
| 2010s | 439 | |
| 2020s | 128 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Denny was the 325th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Denny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnnypeak 1947
- Sammypeak 1947
- Tommypeak 1947
- Jimmypeak 1947
- Roddypeak 1960
- Jeraldpeak 1942
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Frankiepeak 1959
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.