Duke Dennis Biography: Age, Real Name, and Net Worth

Duke Dennis is a 30 year-old American content creator and YouTube star born on February 26, 1994. Dennis’s real name is Duke Dennis, and he has a net worth estimated at $2 million.

The talented Grenville-born social media personality caught the public’s attention in 2017 after uploading the popular NBA 2k19 video game on his YouTube channel. Further endeavors on YouTube and other social media platforms have helped him amass a significant fortune, and it is not surprising that the public wants to know more about him.

How Old is Duke Dennis Today?

Duke Dennis is currently 30 years old. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, on February 26, 1994. His birth sign is Pisces, and his place of birth confirms his status as an American citizen.

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Several sources have indicated that Duke has a mixed ethnic identity, but the social media star has not been forthcoming about his birth family members. Nonetheless, we deduced from his social media activity that he has no idea who his father is after he stated that he did not have a father to wish a Happy Father’s Day to.

It also lends credence to the possibility that he may have been raised by a single mother. However, there is no available information about the identity of the woman who gave birth to Duke Dennis, but our sources have confirmed that he has two younger brothers, one of whom is named Darius Dennis and who currently lives with him at his Deeblock apartment at City Heights, a neighborhood in San Diego, California.

Details of his formal educational background are limited to the reality that he received his high school diploma at an as-yet-to-be-identified Catholic high school in South Carolina. While in school, he was actively involved in organized sporting activities like basketball and football.

He particularly excelled at football, and his skills prompted several offers from small colleges in the community. He reportedly declined all the offers because he was not interested in professionally engaging in the sport.

His Real Name is Duke Dennis

Considering that many social media personalities and people generally tend to use nicknames when setting up social media profiles, it is not out of the realm of possibility that many have wondered if Duke Dennis is the name our social media personality was born with.

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We have received affirmative intel on the subject confirming the fact that Duke Dennis is one of an equally significant number of celebrities who use their real names for their social media activity, a fact duly reflected on practically all his YouTube channels, as well as on his other social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.

Duke Dennis Has a Net Worth of Over $2 Million

From all his endeavors on social media platforms like YouTube, Duke Dennis has managed to amass a net worth currently estimated to be over $2 million.

Duke Dennis Spent Four Years in The Military Before Finding Fame

From some episodes of his YouTube posts and via verified sources, we can confirm that Duke Dennis spent about four years of his life in the United States Army. While all these sources are unanimous in the fact that he was in the army, some of them say that it was right after high school, and others claim it was after university.

After basic training, he was stationed in Germany, where his job description mainly involved administrative work. He admitted to wanting to leave at some point because he struggled with taking orders. Thanks to his mother’s advice that he should stick it out, he managed to complete his four-year contract in 2017.

YouTube Content Largely Contributes to Duke Dennis’s Net Worth

Speaking of social media engagements, Duke Dennis is especially famous for posting YouTube content, a reality that does not detract from the fact that he is also actively engaged on other social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter.

It simply means that most of his fame, accolades, and finances have come from his activities on YouTube. Verified sources, including his YouTube channels, indicate that he launched his first YouTube gaming channel, Duke Dennis Gaming, on February 16, 2013.

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However, he waited for about three years before he posted his debut gaming video on that channel on October 29, 2016, titled NBA 2K17 DROPPED 19 ON SUPERSTAR HEAD – BEST JUMPSHOT IN NBA 2K17. That channel, where he posts primarily NBA2K-related videos, currently has more than two million subscribers and shows no sign of abating.

He launched another YouTube channel on May 1, 2020. On this channel, the content he posts is focused on lifestyle. On July 8, 2021, the YouTube star launched another YouTube Channel named DukeDennis LIVE, and on this channel, he posts reaction videos. This channel has amassed more than 300k subscribers over a couple of years.

As earlier stated, the YouTuber is also active on other social media platforms like Instagram, where he has amassed more than 1.6 million followers, as well as on Twitter, where he has around four hundred thousand followers.

In addition to YouTube and other social media activities, he also generates income from endorsement deals and through the sale of merchandise facilitated by his online store at Dukedennis.shop. Some of the merchandise he sells include sweatshirts, t-shirts, shorts, and other everyday apparel.