Denny

At the 2020 census, 16,304 Americans bore the surname Denny — 2,168th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,300.

By the numbers

People: 16,304
Rank: 2,168th
How common: 1 in 18,300
Per 100,000: 5.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Denny

Sandy Denny (1947–1978)British singer
Matthew Denny (born 1996)Australian athletics competitor
Reginald Denny (1891–1967)British actor, aviator and businessman

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

Surnames like Denny

Also a first name

Denny has been given to 15,819 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1947. 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.