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How popular is “Denny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Denny” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Denny” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Denny” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Denny” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Denny” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Denny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Denny” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 -100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 -100%
1920 32 0.000014143 32 -100%
1921 40 0.000017134 40 -100%
1922 38 0.0000166 38 -100%
1923 26 0.000011292 26 -100%
1924 34 0.000014276 34 -100%
1925 39 0.000016715 39 -100%
1926 55 0.000023956 8 47 -71%
1927 62 0.000026732 62 -100%
1928 70 0.000030961 70 -100%
1929 76 0.000034669 6 70 -84%
1930 76 0.000034184 76 -100%
1931 60 0.000028512 60 -100%
1932 86 0.000040733 86 -100%
1933 105 0.000052515 105 -100%
1934 140 0.000067411 8 132 -89%
1935 135 0.000064596 8 127 -88%
1936 145 0.000069793 6 139 -92%
1937 141 0.000066176 141 -100%
1938 169 0.000076382 7 162 -92%
1939 229 0.000103928 7 222 -94%
1940 187 0.00008121 187 -100%
1941 229 0.00009399 5 224 -96%
1942 310 0.000113478 7 303 -95%
1943 310 0.000109829 10 300 -94%
1944 302 0.000112264 7 295 -95%
1945 278 0.000104791 5 273 -96%
1946 396 0.000123932 6 390 -97%
1947 446 0.000123809 6 440 -97%
1948 334 0.000096741 7 327 -96%
1949 278 0.000079776 6 272 -96%
1950 302 0.000086203 6 296 -96%
1951 279 0.000075738 9 270 -94%
1952 260 0.000068457 9 251 -93%
1953 258 0.00006695 12 246 -91%
1954 226 0.000056774 5 221 -96%
1955 248 0.000061767 10 238 -92%
1956 266 0.000064516 11 255 -92%
1957 306 0.00007282 12 294 -92%
1958 318 0.000076925 13 305 -92%
1959 333 0.000080087 16 317 -90%
1960 322 0.000077519 13 309 -92%
1961 265 0.000063974 6 259 -95%
1962 268 0.000066413 9 259 -93%
1963 280 0.000070739 5 275 -96%
1964 233 0.000059934 6 227 -95%
1965 243 0.000067026 6 237 -95%
1966 215 0.000061859 215 -100%
1967 200 0.000058912 5 195 -95%
1968 204 0.000060383 204 -100%
1969 273 0.000078554 6 267 -96%
1970 244 0.000067655 244 -100%
1971 224 0.000065261 7 217 -94%
1972 235 0.000074769 11 224 -91%
1973 208 0.000068945 11 197 -89%
1974 228 0.000075 11 217 -90%
1975 207 0.000068557 7 200 -93%
1976 182 0.000059981 17 165 -81%
1977 198 0.000062333 9 189 -91%
1978 155 0.000048836 6 149 -92%
1979 139 0.000041779 139 -100%
1980 139 0.000040354 139 -100%
1981 139 0.000040181 5 134 -93%
1982 164 0.000046751 7 157 -91%
1983 122 0.000035226 122 -100%
1984 101 0.00002895 101 -100%
1985 124 0.000034743 7 117 -89%
1986 116 0.000032611 7 109 -88%
1987 121 0.000033559 7 114 -88%
1988 112 0.000030311 112 -100%
1989 118 0.000030694 118 -100%
1990 93 0.00002353 5 88 -89%
1991 114 0.000029266 114 -100%
1992 98 0.000025512 98 -100%
1993 83 0.000022014 83 -100%
1994 90 0.000024209 90 -100%
1995 88 0.00002403 88 -100%
1996 102 0.000027967 5 97 -90%
1997 103 0.000028408 5 98 -90%
1998 63 0.000017128 63 -100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 -100%
2000 66 0.000017461 66 -100%
2001 68 0.000018165 68 -100%
2002 81 0.000021668 81 -100%
2003 73 0.000019199 73 -100%
2004 73 0.000019105 73 -100%
2005 68 0.000017686 68 -100%
2006 78 0.000019716 78 -100%
2007 85 0.000021262 85 -100%
2008 65 0.000016537 65 -100%
2009 50 0.000013088 50 -100%
2010 63 0.000017047 63 -100%
2011 68 0.00001859 68 -100%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 -100%
2013 44 0.000012069 44 -100%
2014 44 0.000011871 44 -100%
2015 48 0.00001297 48 -100%
2016 31 0.00000845 31 -100%
2017 33 0.000009228 33 -100%
2018 34 0.00000967 34 -100%
2019 32 0.000009219 32 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 7 17 -42%
2021 26 0.000007674 26 -100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 -100%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

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