Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Dennes

#21,370 most common boys' name of all time · #56,298 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1940–1995

Rank among boys
#21,370
Rank overall
#56,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1940
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
38
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1965 #3,186
Best rank
#3,186 1965
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
194019601980

Dennes first appears in 1940. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1995 — 5 5 #9,138
1989 — 5 5 #8,230
1970 — 5 5 #5,097
1969 — 5 5 #4,731
1965 — 8 8 #3,186
1948 — 5 5 #4,127
1940 — 5 5 #3,911