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Dennis
Pronounced /ˈdɛnɪs/
Rank in 2024
#707
Born in 2024
376
Peak year
1952 · #18
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:5 in 2024 (#17,065)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 376 boys were named Dennis, about 1 in every 4,562.
- It peaked in 1952 with 24,552 babies, ranked #18.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 620,615 boys have been named Dennis since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dennis per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 4.9Silent1928–45
- 9.3Boomers1946–64
- 3.4Gen X1965–80
- 1.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,213 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Silent: 101,791 babies, 4.93 per 1,000. Boomers: 349,491 babies, 9.31 per 1,000. Gen X: 92,760 babies, 3.41 per 1,000. Millennials: 40,613 babies, 1.33 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,661 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,928 babies, 0.27 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈdɛnɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0.