Dennys — #11215 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dennys

The Social Security Administration has registered 477 babies named Dennys between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dennys currently holds the #11215 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Dennys is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dennys performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 147 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dennys shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Dennys in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dennys in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 477 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.