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Denny vs Denym

American parents have registered 15,819 Dennys since 1880, against 774 Denyms. But in 2025 it was Denym that was commoner, 105 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Denny against Denym, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Denny Denym

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Denny for 113 years and Denym for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Denny Denym
Total US births 15,819774
Most in one year 445105
Babies in 2025 24105
Estimated living today 11,000770
Median age today 565
Peak year 19472025
Best rank 325th boys2,957th girls
Rank in 2025 4,249th2,957th
First recorded 18892002
Girls / boys 402 / 15,417431 / 343

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dennys alive today are over 56; half the Denyms are over 5. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Denny and Denym.