Denney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Denny
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɛni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Denney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.5Kas Deni(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 27Kas Denny
- CNChina≈1 in 447K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Denney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 447K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Deni, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Deni in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Denny.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Denney counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #40 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Deni | 198 |
| US United States | — | 12,121as Denny | 1 in 27K | 18K | Denney | 379 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,426as Denny | 1 in 4.9K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Denney | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,785as Deni | 1 in 76K | 3.3K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 995as Deni | 1 in 4.2K | 1.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 814as Denny | 1 in 13K | 814 | — | 9 |
| AL Albania | — | 224as Deni | 1 in 14K | 210 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Denney is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, (i) Person from Denny, Cambridgeshire or Falkirk; or (ii) pet-form of Denis.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, pet-form of Denis; also from Denny (C) or Denny (Stirling); first attested John Denye 1275 RH (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Denneyb. 1856GBBritish theologian and preacher (1856–1917)
- William D. Denneyb. 1873USAmerican governor of Delaware (1873-1953)
- Reuel Denneyb. 1913USAmerican writer (1913–1995)
- Robert Vernon Denneyb. 1916USAmerican politician (1916–1981)
- Alice Denneyb. 1922USAmerican arts curator (1922–2023)
- Nora Denneyb. 1927USAmerican actress (1927-2005)
- Lawerence Denneyb. 1948USAmerican politician (1948-)
- Travis Denneyb. 1976AUbadminton player
- Caydee Denneyb. 1993USAmerican pair skater
- Haven Denneyb. 1995USAmerican pair skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Denney mean, and where does it come from?
- A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Denny. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Denney?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Denney have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Deni in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Denney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,121 people named Denny in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Denney compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Denney is the 40th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Denney?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/denneyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Denney” — the 40th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.