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The DENNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,366 1899 0.006 64
United States (1880 census) 5,182 1169 0.01 104
Change since 1880 +12184 -730 -0.004 -40
Other Countries
Australia 835 1953 0.005 51
United Kingdom 3,536 1771 0.008 77
Top States for DENNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,328 2546 0.004 39
North Carolina 1,245 1032 0.015 155
Indiana 997 759 0.016 164
New York 897 2223 0.005 47
Texas 886 2786 0.004 42
Top States for DENNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 196 517 0.022 217
Kentucky 676 929 0.017 167
Indiana 997 759 0.016 164
North Carolina 1,245 1032 0.015 155
Alaska 96 868 0.015 153

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DENNY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DENNY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DENNY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DENNY by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DENNY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DENNY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DENNY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DENNY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 745 4.29
White (Hispanic) 311 1.79
Mixed Race 304 1.75
Asian/Pacific 97 0.56
White (Caucasian) 14,732 84.83
Black/African American 1,177 6.78

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DENNY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DENNY in historical publications

DENNY. DENNEY. Denis— the baptismal name. Some families so called are known to have settled here from France after the Rev. of the Edict of Nantes, 1685.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DENNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DENNY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DENNY

The following words are slight variants of DENNY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.