Dénny
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dénny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia; London; also Lancs. relationship name from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (See Dennis ). Compare Tenney .
- ECEcuador1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
12,121 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Denny in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia; London; also Lancs. relationship name from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (See Dennis ). Compare Tenney . Some of the following examples may belong with (2) or (3). For the name in Lancs See Denney .
Sources 6
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dénny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
12,121 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dénny mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): E Anglia; London; also Lancs. relationship name from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (See Dennis ). Compare Tenney . Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Dénny a male or female name?
- Dénny is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dénny have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Dénny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled denny.
- Where is Dénny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dénny is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dénny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,121 people named Dénny in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9nnyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dénny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.