A name is a name. I was born in the late 60s. My name Dennis turned me into a fighter. It also turned my sister into a fighter. Kids would chant. You guessed it. Dennis the Menace, Dennis the Menace.
My name is Dennis. As a kid, I got the usual "Dennis the Menace" stuff. I got tired of that, so, I changed it to better fit my personality. Today, I am "DENNIS THE MENTAL". :)
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.
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!