Meaning and history
From a surname derived from a place name meaning “valley town” in Old English.
20062006: 67 births, rank #1,994
2007: 46 births, rank #2,643
2008: 48 births, rank #2,583
2009: 47 births, rank #2,623
2010: 45 births, rank #2,682
20112011: 53 births, rank #2,376
2012: 53 births, rank #2,380
2013: 56 births, rank #2,278
2014: 48 births, rank #2,542
2015: 52 births, rank #2,429
20162016: 42 births, rank #2,838
2017: 55 births, rank #2,345
2018: 35 births, rank #3,240
2019: 39 births, rank #3,052
2020: 38 births, rank #3,025
20212021: 26 births, rank #4,011
2022: 39 births, rank #3,100
2023: 38 births, rank #3,177
2024: 27 births, rank #3,986
20252025: 32 births, rank #3,513
Denton rose from #926 to #920 for boys between 1946 and 1950. Its highest annual birth count came in 1942, with 65 births.