Comments for the name Dennis

Actor Dennis Hopper is a famous bearer.

Famous bearer: Dennis the Menace, the cartoon.

I don't know how to verify this information but it was given to me by my teacher who's name is Dennis: he said that the name Dennis means "godlike".

Dennis Wilson, member of the Beach Boys.

Rhymes with tennis, menace and Venice.

Dennis Moore the highwayman is a character in a Monty Python sketch.

Middle name of famed comedian George Carlin.

A peasant in Monty Python and the Holy Grail complains about the monarchy and how "supreme executive power should come from a mandate from the masses." His name is Dennis. In the musical version, Spamalot, this peasant is Dennis Galahad, who later becomes a very attractive knight.

It's possible that the name is derived from Old English "Denisc" (sc = sh) which means Danish.

Dennis Creevey is the younger brother of the better known Colin Creevey - both are characters in the Harry Potter books.

Listen to the German pronunciation of Dennis here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

Dennis Rader is the self-styled BTK killer.

My father's name is Dennis, and we find it funny that Dennis spelled backward is "sinned". It's still a good name though.

Dennis Weaver played McCloud on CBS back in the '70's.

My brother's name is Dennis. I think it makes him seem both strong and gentle. He weathered the whole Dennis the Menace thing, being that he was born like a year before the character debuted. But, you know what, people make the names they are given not the other way around and when I hear the name Dennis, I don't think of that dumb kid in the comics and tv show, I think of a Highland warrior or an English Lord or something. A funny aside -- my brother Dennis was a phenomenal tennis player in his youth! Ok. That got him ribbed a bit!

Dyns (pronounced: DIN-is), with its Welsh root name, Ynys (pronounced: IN-is) is a feminine form for Dennis. Also, Diynys, with alternate spellings like, Dee-Ynys (pronounced: dee-IN-is), functions well as a feminization of Dennis, too. If you are looking for a Welsh girl's name and you favor the boy's name Dennis, consider the first and middle name combination of, Dynys Enlli, as Ynys Enlli is a Welsh place name of an island considered to be the fabled Isle of Avalon from Authurian legend.

Simply an underrated and awesome name.

Also Scandinavian.

I don't really like most names that end in the 's' sound, and the masculine ones are even worse than the feminine ones, except for maybe Mavis, which is even worse than this name, for instance. Besides, I never did like Dennis the Menace, and that's what comes to mind, as does the occasional American pronunciation of 'dentist'. Gah, not a great association that one, either.

I never gave the name Dennis any thought before. But then I saw "Martian Child." The kid's name is Dennis and I've found I like it.

Dennis is the name of Jack's quirky assistant on the popular '90s television sitcom "Just Shoot Me". Dennis is played by David Spade.

Dennis means "of the sky".

A famous bearer is American actor Dennis Franz (born October 28, 1944). He is best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz in the television series "NYPD Blue", for which he won 4 Emmy Awards.

He steals from the rich and gives it to the poor, Mr. Moore, Dennis Moore.

Dennis is an awesome name! I would like to see it used more often, I really would. Will I use this someday? Maybe.

Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here! (Monty Python)

I know a really cute, shy little boy named Dennis, he made me start to really like the name. It's so cute, but at the same time old fashioned :)