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Dennie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dennie has been given to 4,537 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 96 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.

Babies named Dennie, 2012

1 in 523,000

Dennie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Dennie over time

In 2012, Dennie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Dennie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dennie means

Dennie is a given name.

The naming story behind Dennie

Wikidata records Dennie as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q105527827, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,729 boys were recorded with the name Dennie between 1881 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1946; its best national rank was #579 in 1886.

In the United States, 808 girls were recorded with the name Dennie between 1884 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1952; its best national rank was #950 in 1884.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dennie?

Dennie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dennie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dennie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dennies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dennie was born before 1951 — so the typical Dennie is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,955
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (743).

Is Dennie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (96)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#579
1886

Spellings of Dennie

Dennie is not the most common spelling — Dennis is, with 54.0% against Dennie's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dennie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Dennie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 107,638 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 9,091
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 10,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dennie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Dennie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Dennie was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dennie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dennie around the world

Where Dennie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Dennie

People whose public names include Dennie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dennie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dennie. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dennie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#579
1886
Peak year
1946
96 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
3,729
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#950
1884
Peak year
1952
22 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
808
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dennie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DentonDenimDenzelDenzilLennieDenverDenaliDenzellDenizDannieBernieDeniroDennyDeniseDenisBonnieArnieJonnieSonnieVinnieVernieDenardJohnieConnie

Names with a curve like Dennie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dennie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GaylonWindellGlynnLawranceDuwayneCurtissMelDellJameWardellLindellAllyn

Sibling names for Dennie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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