Denny

Where Denny comes from

Denny hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #974 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Denny Hulme born
    New Zealand racing driver
  3. 1947
    Peak, #325
    439 babies named Denny — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #516.
  5. 1976
    Denny Landzaat born
    Dutch footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Denny Hulme · New Zealand racing driver, 1936–1992
  • Denny Landzaat · Dutch footballer, born 1976
  • Denny Doherty · Canadian singer, 1940–2007
  • Denny Morrison · Canadian speed skater, born 1985
  • Denny Vrandečić · Croatian computer scientist, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.