Dennie
Feminine · “of Dionysus”
Dennie is given to both — 808 girls and 3,729 boys since 1880. See Dennie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Dennie is the everyday form of a name that belongs to France more than to England. Denis is France's own saint, the first bishop of Paris, and his abbey is the most consequential building in French history — though almost nobody who carries the name in America knows it.
How old is the name Dennie?
Dennie first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Dennie alive today was born around 1946, making them about 79 years old. About 400 people named Dennie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dennie most popular?
Dennie peaked in 1884, reaching #930 nationally. See the whole 1884 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Dionysios to Dennie
The story of Dennie
The Abbey of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, is where nearly every king of France is buried, from the Merovingians to Louis the Eighteenth, and it is where Gothic architecture was invented — the abbot Suger rebuilt the choir in the twelfth century with pointed arches and enormous windows and set the pattern for every cathedral that followed. Denis became the patron saint of France, his name went onto a large part of the French population, and Norman families carried it to England, where it settled as Dennis. Dennie is the familiar form, and it appears in American records from the very beginning of the count, given to girls as well as boys because it also serves as the everyday form of Denise.
Meaning
of Dionysus
The Greek Dionysios means belonging to the god Dionysus, and the Christian saints who carried it never shed the connection. The meaning is settled; what it meant to the men who bore it is another question.
How the name formed
- Dionysios
- Denis
- Dennis
- Dennie
Related forms: Denis · Dionigi · Dionisio · Denis
Pronouncing Dennie
DEN-ee
Two syllables, weight at the front. French says the parent name duh-NEE, with the s silent, which English has never done.
Nicknames for Dennie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1884
- Most girls named
- 195222 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #930reached in 1884
- Change vs 1980
- −16.7%5 in 1985, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dennie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Denis in French — same name
- Dionigi in Italian — same name
- Dionisio in Spanish — same name
- Denis in Russian — transliteration
Dennies among us
people named Dennie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Dennie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Two syllables, six letters, and one obvious way to say it.
- It works for a child and an adult alike, which not every familiar form does.
- The name behind it has a documented history from Greek religion through French kingship to the present.
- It reads as a familiar form rather than a formal one, and some settings will ask for a longer name.
- The spelling is recorded for girls as well as boys, because it also does duty for Denise.
- It belongs to the late nineteenth century and reads that way.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dennies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Dennie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dennie in 2025?
- Dennie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Dennie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
Dorothy#421 · Donna#1962 · Deborah#862 · Debra#4460 · Diane#2607 · Doris#2895 · Denise#1673 · Danielle#549
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