Dennison

Dennison is the 2,548th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,817 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,817
Rank: 2,548th
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dennison described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Dennison

Julian Dennison (born 2002)New Zealand actor
William Dennison Jr. (1815–1882)American politician

People named Dennison with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dennison

Also a first name

Dennison has been given to 760 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 1949. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.