Whitaker
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 66 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 849since 1949
Whitaker over time
Rank among boys' names. Whitaker has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,167 | 66 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,210 | 65 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,614 | 50 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | — | #2,193 | 64 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,586 | 49 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,491 | 53 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,708 | 45 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,295 | 57 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,626 | 47 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,085 | 37 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,983 | 18 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,332 | 33 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,067 | 18 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,210 | 17 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
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| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Whitaker! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Whitaker
- 43 spots since 2024 (#2,210 → #2,167)
- 419 spots since 2020 (#2,586 → #2,167)
- 918 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #2,167)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2025 at #2,167 (66 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 were named Whitaker (0.00%)
- 41.1% of all boys named Whitaker (349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,238 (1983) | #7,072 |
| 1990s | 25 | #7,422 (1992) | #7,971 |
| 2000s | 117 | #3,332 (2009) | #6,809 |
| 2010s | 349 | #2,295 (2017) | #3,589 |
| 2020s | 343 | #2,167 (2025) | #2,408 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Whitaker in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 273,355 of them was named Whitaker, which outranked 23.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,243Zylia7
- #12,243Zyliah7
- #12,243Zyniah7
- #13,592Whitaker6
- #13,592Aadhyareddy6
- #13,592Aagna6
- #13,592Aaiza6
- #15,306Aabha5
- #15,306Aadhvi5
- #15,306Aailani5
Tied with 1,713 names at #13,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 35,633 of them was named Whitaker, which outranked 81.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,648Sailor50
- #2,648Talha50
- #2,648Tyshawn50
- #2,675Whitaker49
- #2,675Alain49
- #2,675Azekiel49
- #2,675Baby49
- #2,717Abir48
- #2,717Abubakar48
- #2,717Aleister48
Tied with 41 names at #2,675; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.