Denny
Denny reached its high-water mark in 1947 at number 325, and has been recorded 15,819 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 11,000 Dennys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Denny boys named Denny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,819
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 325th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,249th
- First recorded
- 1889
- Girls / boys
- 402 / 15,417
How old the living Dennys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,819 babies given the name since 1889, about 11,000 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Dennys
- Denny Hulme (1936–1992)New Zealand racing driver
- Denny Landzaat (born 1976)Dutch footballer
- Denny Laine (1944–2023)British rock musician
- Denny Doherty (1940–2007)Canadian singer
- Denny Morrison (born 1985)Canadian speed skater
- Denny Vrandečić (born 1978)Croatian computer scientist
- Denny Hamlin (born 1980)American racing driver and team owner
- Denny Miller (1934–2014)American actor
People named Denny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Denny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Denny is most concentrated in Iowa (3.1×), West Virginia (3.1×), Kentucky (2.7×), Indiana (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Denny peaked:
Denny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Denny | 1,039 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Denny | 839 | 645th |
| Scotland boys | Denny | 27 | 466th |
| France boys | Denny | 25 | 5,946th |
| England and Wales girls | Denny | 21 | 4,709th |
| Ireland boys | Denny | 7 | 646th |
| Belgium boys | Denny | 5 | 1,273rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Denny by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 578th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Denny among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Denny | 9 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Denny against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.