Meaning not yet researched.
Denny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #325 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #325 in 1947; #4,284 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Denny in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,284 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #325.
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Denny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #325 in 1947 · most boys in one year: 439 (1947).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Denny, making it the 4,284th most common boys’ name of the year, up 64 places from #4,348 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 24 boys named Denny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #325, reached in 1947. That year also had the most boys given the name: 439. For comparison, it was #2,573 in 2015 and #392 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Denny in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 15,819 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 3,070 babies named Denny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 283 US boys were named Denny; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dennie (4,537 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Denia, Denee and Deniya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Denia (1,256), Denee (911), Deniya (395), Denea (376), Denney (218), Deny (140), Denya (124), Diany (83), Deoni (76), Deonni (63), Dianny (50), Deani (47), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Denny in the open dataset we use.
Denny is listed as a nickname for Dennis, Dennison.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,284 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,348 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,734 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,555 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,040 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,480 | 17 | #5,304 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,509 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,314 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,398 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,545 |
| 2015 | — | — | 48 | #2,573 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,720 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,679 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,831 |
| 2011 | — | — | 68 | #2,008 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,126 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,535 |
| 2008 | — | — | 65 | #2,106 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,748 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,776 |
| 2005 | — | — | 68 | #1,872 |
| 2004 | — | — | 73 | #1,735 |
| 2003 | — | — | 73 | #1,689 |
| 2002 | — | — | 81 | #1,533 |
| 2001 | — | — | 68 | #1,702 |
| 2000 | — | — | 66 | #1,715 |
| 1999 | — | — | 76 | #1,493 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,647 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,330 | 98 | #1,207 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,084 | 97 | #1,182 |
| 1995 | — | — | 88 | #1,240 |
| 1994 | — | — | 90 | #1,214 |
| 1993 | — | — | 83 | #1,249 |
| 1992 | — | — | 98 | #1,110 |
| 1991 | — | — | 114 | #1,009 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,528 | 88 | #1,156 |
| 1989 | — | — | 118 | #938 |
| 1988 | — | — | 112 | #905 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,019 | 114 | #877 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,778 | 109 | #870 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,574 | 117 | #825 |
| 1984 | — | — | 101 | #875 |
| 1983 | — | — | 122 | #792 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,452 | 157 | #693 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,818 | 134 | #755 |
| 1980 | — | — | 139 | #746 |
| 1979 | — | — | 139 | #733 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,818 | 149 | #689 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,474 | 189 | #611 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,843 | 165 | #640 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,354 | 200 | #570 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,087 | 217 | #544 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,959 | 198 | #565 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,864 | 224 | #529 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,767 | 217 | #547 |
| 1970 | — | — | 244 | #517 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,831 | 267 | #468 |
| 1968 | — | — | 204 | #535 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,035 | 195 | #532 |
| 1966 | — | — | 215 | #517 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,970 | 237 | #496 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,179 | 227 | #519 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,831 | 275 | #482 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,612 | 259 | #493 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,994 | 259 | #489 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,545 | 309 | #456 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,011 | 317 | #451 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,414 | 305 | #448 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,524 | 294 | #449 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,744 | 255 | #473 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,846 | 238 | #476 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,940 | 221 | #486 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,316 | 246 | #457 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,880 | 251 | #446 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,774 | 270 | #415 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,866 | 296 | #392 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,800 | 272 | #408 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,289 | 327 | #376 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,879 | 439 | #325 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,550 | 391 | #325 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,704 | 273 | #360 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,774 | 295 | #347 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,090 | 300 | #353 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,825 | 303 | #346 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,555 | 224 | #383 |
| 1940 | — | — | 187 | #426 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,518 | 222 | #381 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,545 | 162 | #455 |
| 1937 | — | — | 141 | #478 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,800 | 139 | #477 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,223 | 127 | #509 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,225 | 132 | #501 |
| 1933 | — | — | 105 | #558 |
| 1932 | — | — | 86 | #659 |
| 1931 | — | — | 60 | #809 |
| 1930 | — | — | 76 | #718 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,185 | 70 | #766 |
| 1928 | — | — | 70 | #775 |
| 1927 | — | — | 62 | #859 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,644 | 47 | #1,011 |
| 1925 | — | — | 39 | #1,127 |
| 1924 | — | — | 34 | #1,252 |
| 1923 | — | — | 26 | #1,466 |
| 1922 | — | — | 38 | #1,163 |
| 1921 | — | — | 40 | #1,126 |
| 1920 | — | — | 32 | #1,280 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,825 |
| 1918 | — | — | 20 | #1,728 |
| 1917 | — | — | 26 | #1,371 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #1,978 |
| 1915 | — | — | 21 | #1,517 |
| 1914 | — | — | 16 | #1,566 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,461 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,373 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,211 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,650 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,182 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,433 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,125 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,072 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,088 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,032 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,006 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).