Dennis

A male given name: from the Greek word meaning “of Dionysus.”.

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Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius.
The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometimes said to be derived from the Greek Dios (Διός, "of Zeus") and Nysos or Nysa (Νῦσα), where the young god was raised. Dionysus (or Dionysos; also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of both agriculture and the theater.
Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the Thracian mysteries, he wears the "bassaris" or fox-skin, symbolizing new life. (See also Maenads.)
A mediaeval Latinised form of the Anglo-Norman surname Le Denys was Dacus, which correctly meant Dacian, but when the Vikings were about was often used to mean "Danish" or "The Dane". The name became modernised as Denys, then later as Dennis.
Alternative forms and spellings of the name include Denis, Denys, Denish, Deon, Deonne, Deonte, and Dion, Dionice. Diminutive forms include Den, Dennoh, Deno, Denny, Deny and Deen.
The name Sydenie (alternate spellings: Sydney or Sidney) may derive from a village in Normandy called Saint-Denis.
A medieval diminutive was Dye, from which the names Dyson and Tyson are derived.
Dennis is a very popular English, Irish and Danish name, common throughout the English-speaking world.
Denis is a very popular French name, common throughout the Francophone world, but is also a common English, Irish, German, Italian, Dutch, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Brazilian, Bosnian, and Albanian name.
Dionizy is the Polish version of the name.
Deniz is the Turkish version of the name. The Turkish language word for "sea" is "deniz", e.g. Kara Deniz" means the Black Sea.
The Irish name Donnchadh may be anglicised as Denis, but has a different origin. Dionigi or Dionisio are Italian versions of the name, although Denis is quite common in Italy.
Feminine versions of the name include: Denise, Denisa, Deni, Denice, Deniece, Dione, and Dionne.

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Masc. proper name, from French Denis, ultimately from Latin Dionysius, name of an important 6c. Church father, from Greek Dionysos, god of wine and revelry.

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Derived from Greek Dionysios, God of wine; mountain of Zeus.

Denyse, Denise, Dinesh

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Dennis Rodman	1961	American basketball player
2	Dennis Quaid	1954	American actor
3	Dennis Hopper	1936	American actor and film director
4	Dennis Wilson	1944	American musician, member of the Beach Boys
5	Dennis Rader	1945	American serial killer
6	Dennis Hastert	1942	American politician: U.S. Speaker of the House
7	Roy L. Dennis	1961	American with a rare disorder
8	Dennis Haysbert	1954	Actor
9	Dennis Bergkamp	1969	Dutch footballer
10	Dennis Farina	1944	American actor
11	Dennis Weaver	1924	American actor
12	Dennis M. Ritchie	1941	American computer scientist
13	Dennis Miller	1953	American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
14	Dennis Prager	1948	American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
15	Dennis Nilsen	1945	British serial killer
16	Dennis Schröder	1993	German basketball player
17	Dennis Waterman	1948	English actor-singer
18	Dennis Franz	1944	American actor
19	Dennis Skinner	1932	British politician
20	Dennis Hof	1946	American entrepreneur
21	Dennis Kucinich	1946	Ohio politician
22	Les Dennis	1953	British comedian and TV presenter
23	Dennis Lehane	1965	Novelist
24	Dennis Green	1949	Player of American and Canadian football
25	Dennis DeYoung	1947	Singer
26	Hugh Dennis	1962	Comedian
27	Dennis Siver	1979	German martial artist
28	Dennis Bermudez	1986	Mixed martial artist
29	Dennis Johnson	1954	NBA basketball player
30	Dennis Cleveland Stewart	1947	American actor
31	Sandy Dennis	1937	Actress
32	Dennis Dugan	1946	Actor and comedian from the United States
33	Gabrielle Dennis	1981	American actress
34	Dennis Crosby	1934	American actor and singer
35	Dennis Cole	1940	Actor
36	Dennis Eckersley	1954	American professional baseball player, relief pitcher
37	Dennis Edwards	1943	American singer
38	Ron Dennis	1947	British businessman
39	Dennis Christopher	1955	American actor
40	Dennis Smith Jr.	1997
41	Dennis Taylor	1949	British snooker player
42	Dennis Byrd	1966	Player of American football
43	Dennis Haskins	1950	American actor
44	Dennis Wise	1966	English footballer and manager
45	Carolyn Dennis	1954	American singer and actor
46	Cathy Dennis	1969	Singer-songwriter
47	Dennis Wolf	1978	German bodybuilder
48	Dennis Scott	1968	American basketball player
49	Dennis Brown	1957	Jamaican reggae singer
50	Dennis Knight	1968	Professional wrestler
51	Dennis Lillee	1949	Cricketer
52	Dennis Erickson	1947	American football coach
53	Dennis Morgan	1908	American actor
54	Dennis Washington	1934	American businessman
55	Dennis Boutsikaris	1952	American actor
56	Dennis Schmidt-Foß	1970	German actor and voice actor
57	Dennis Kozlowski	1946	American businessman
58	Dennis "Cutty" Wise		Character from The Wire
59	Dennis Tito	1940	American businessman
60	Dennis Trillo	1981	Filipino actor
61	Dennis Alexio	1959	Kickboxer
62	Dennis Locorriere	1949	American musician
63	Dennis Muilenburg	1964	American businessman, and the president, chairman, and chief executive officer of The Boeing Company
64	Dennis Franchione	1951	American college football coach
65	Dennis Praet	1994	Footballer
66	Dennis Pitta	1985	American football player, tight end
67	Dennis Day	1916	Actor, comedian and singer
68	Dennis Joseph O'Neil	1981	Korean-American actor, model
69	Richard Dennis	1949	American commodities speculator
70	Dennis Holahan	1942	American actor
71	Dennis Holmes	1959	American child actor
72	Dennis Banks	1937	Native American leader
73	Dennis Burkley	1945	Actor
74	Dennis Stock	1928	American photographer
75	Dennis Price	1915	Actor
76	Dennis Potter	1935	English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
77	Stefan Dennis	1958	Australian actor
78	Dennis Dixon	1985	American football player
79	Dennis Dun	1952	American actor
80	Dennis Reynolds
81	Dennis Hwang	1978	Graphic artist
82	Dennis Gabor	1900	Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
83	Dennis Rickman
84	Dennis Wheatley	1897	English author of thrillers and occult novels
85	Dennis Wideman	1983	Canadian ice hockey player
86	Felix Dennis	1947	English publisher, poet, spoken word performer and philanthropist
87	Dennis M. Lynch	1969	American entrepreneur, documentary film maker, and conservative commentator
88	Dennis McKenna	1950	Ethnopharmacologist and author
89	Dennis Anderson	1960	American professional monster truck driver
90	Dennis Davis	1951	American musician
91	Dennis Martínez	1955	Baseball player
92	Dennis Ross	1948	American diplomat
93	Dennis Chambers	1959	American musician
94	Dennis Hallman	1975	American martial artist
95	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto	1984	Kenyan long-distance runner
96	Dennis Allen	1951	Australian criminal
97	Dennis E. Fitch	1942	Commercial airline pilot
98	Dennis Priestley	1950	British darts player
99	Dennis Aogo	1987	German footballer
100	Dennis W. Sciama	1926	British physicist
101	Dennis Padilla	1962	Filipino actor
102	Dennis O'Keefe	1908	American actor
103	Dennis O'Neil	1939	American comics writer
104	Rohan Dennis	1990	Racing cyclist
105	Dennis Daugaard	1953	American politician
106	Dennis Frederiksen	1951	American musician
107	Dennis Fimple	1940	American actor
108	Dennis Stratton	1952	English rock musician
109	Dennis Viollet	1933	English footballer and manager
110	Dennis James	1917	Actor, television personality, game show host, announcer
111	Dennis Cometti	1949	Australian rules football commentator
112	Dennis Condrey	1952	American professional wrestler
113	Dennis Dunaway	1946	American musician
114	Dennis Wilms	1975	German television presenter
115	Dennis Muren	1946	American film special effects artist
116	Dennis C. Blair	1947	United States admiral
117	Dennis Cooper	1953	American writer
118	Dennis Seidenberg	1981	German ice hockey player
119	Dennis To	1981	Actor
120	Dennis Conner	1942	Sailor
121	Dennis Rommedahl	1978	Danish footballer
122	Dennis Linde	1943	American singer and songwriter
123	Dennis Storm	1985	Dutch tv-host
124	Dennis Fong	1977	American businessperson
125	Dennis Oliech	1985	Footballer
126	Dennis Archer	1942	67th Mayor of Detroit
127	Dennis Gansel	1973	German film director
128	John Dennis	1952	American actor, born 1952
129	Dennis Crowley	1976	American internet entrepreneur
130	Dennis Heck	1952	American politician
131	Dennis van de Ven	1973	Dutch actor
132	Dennis Coffey	1940	American guitarist
133	Patrick Dennis	1921	Novelist
134	Dennis Kelly	1990	American football player
135	Dennis Lyxzén	1972	Swedish rock musician
136	Dennis Joseph		Film director and screenwriter
137	Dennis Smith	1959	Player of American football
138	Dennis Chan	2000	Actor, screenwriter and film producer
139	Dennis Fantina	1976	Italian singer and television presenter
140	Dennis DeConcini	1937	American politician
141	Dennis Weening	1977	Dutch presenter / journalist
142	Dennis Shepard		Father of Matthew Shepard and oil industry safety specialist
143	Dennis Seaton	1967	British musician
144	Dennis Mitchell	1966	American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
145	Dennis L. Via	1958	United States Army four-star general
146	Dennis Elliott	1950	British artist
147	Dennis Patrick	1918	American character actor
148	Dennis Thurman	1956	American football player and coach
149	Dennis Chew	1973	Singaporean musician
150	Dennis Danell	1961	American guitarist
151	Dennis Ferguson	1948	Australian child sex offender pedophile
152	Dennis Storhøi	1960	Norwegian actor
153	Dennis Tanner
154	Dennis Appiah	1992	Footballer
155	Dennis Lipscomb	1942	American actor
156	Dennis A. Ross	1959	US Congressman from Florida
157	Dennis Sullivan	1941	Mathematician
158	Dennis Berry	1944	Film director, actor, screenwriter
159	Dennis Levine	1952	American investor, white-collar criminal
160	Dennis Hextall	1943	Canadian ice hockey player
161	Dennis Chalker	1954	Navy SEAL, author
162	Dennis Hull	1944	Canadian ice hockey player
163	Dennis Regan		American actor
164	Dennis Hope		American entrepeneur
165	Dennis Roldan	1960	Filipino basketball player and businessman
166	Dennis Mojen	1993	German actor
167	Dennis L. Montgomery	1953	Computer software designer
168	Dennis DJ	1980	Brazilian disc jockey and record producer
169	Dennis Tufano	1946	American singer
170	Dennis Brain	1921	British virtuoso horn player
171	Dave Dennis
172	Dennis Bovell	1953	Barbadian-British reggae musician
173	Dennis Chun	1952	American actor
174	Dennis Lawrence	1974	Trinidad and Tobago footballer
175	Dennis Hoey	1893	British film actor
176	Dennis McCarthy	1945	American composer
177	Dennis Novikov	1993	American tennis player
178	Cheri Dennis	1979	American musician
179	Dennis Stamp	1946
180	Dennis Hayden	1952	American actor
181	Dennis Bryon	1949	British rock drummer
182	Dennis Ferrer	1970	American DJ and record producer
183	Dennis Amiss	1943	Cricketer
184	Dennis Hopson	1965	Retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach
185	Dennis Diekmeier	1989	German footballer
186	Kristian Dennis	1990	English footballer
187	Dennis Lee	1939	Canadian poet, teacher, editor, critic
188	Dennis Hefter	1993	German volleyball player
189	Dennis Brutus	1924	South African activist and writer
190	C. J. Dennis	1876	Australian poet
191	Dennis Ritter	1972
192	Dennis O'Neill case	1932	British abuse victim
193	Nia Dennis	1999	American artistic gymnast
194	Dennis Northcutt	1976	All-American college football player, professional football player, wide receiver, punt returner
195	Dennis Lindsey	1969	National Basketball Association executive
196	Dennis Oppenheim	1938	American artist, sculptor and photographer
197	Dennis Andries	1953	Guyanese Boxer
198	Dennis Wolfberg	1946	American comedian and actor
199	Dennis Slamon	1948	American physicain
200	Dennis Moore	1945	American politician