Girls' name · since 1957
Dennette
209 babies named Dennette in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1966. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 209
- born since 1957
- 1960s
- peak decade
Dennette is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 209 have been recorded since 1957.
Dennette has 209 recorded births among girls since 1957, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1957 to 1987.
- #19,362 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 209 born since 1957
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dennette ranks #19,362 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 209 born since 1957, peaking in the 1960s.
- #19,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 209
- born since 1957
- 1960s
- peak decade
Dennette's 209 recorded births place it above 73.19% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dennette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Dennette's full recorded timeline at 1968, 40% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 60% in the earlier half -- the name was more prevalent in its earlier era than it is today. Its quietest year on record was 1958, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1966 peak of 23 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Dennette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–1987
- Peak year (1966)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Dennette by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (125 births, 60% of the file).
1960s was Dennette's strongest decade.
125 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Dennette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 22
1950s
22 births
- 1960s
1960s
125 births
- 1970s
1970s
57 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 125 births (60% of all-time use).
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- Dennette's decade-level peak was the 1960s (125 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dennette: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1966)
Similar record span (~30 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1957–1987 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dennette draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.