Denny

Where Denny comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Denny.

  • Vowel-ended
Denny through the years
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #974 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Denny Hulme born
    New Zealand racing driver
  3. 1947
    Peak, #325
    439 babies named Denny, the most in any year.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #516.
  5. 1976
    Denny Landzaat born
    Dutch footballer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Denny Hulme · New Zealand racing driver, 1936–1992
  • Denny Landzaat · Dutch footballer, born 1976
  • Denny Doherty · Canadian singer, 1940–2007
  • Denny Morrison · Canadian speed skater, born 1985
  • Denny Vrandečić · Croatian computer scientist, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.