Whitten
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #12,206 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 95.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 516since 1997
Whitten over time
Rank among boys' names. Whitten 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 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,228 | 37 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | — | #3,653 | 29 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | — | #3,678 | 29 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,776 | 20 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,080 | 25 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,686 | 20 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,848 | 19 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
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| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Whitten! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2002, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Whitten
- 1,188 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #2,884)
- 769 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #2,884)
- 1,196 spots since 2015 (#4,080 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2025 at #2,884 (43 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 were named Whitten (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all boys named Whitten (230) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,603 |
| 2000s | 61 | #5,492 (2004) | #8,416 |
| 2010s | 230 | #3,301 (2018) | #4,500 |
| 2020s | 210 | #2,884 (2025) | #3,376 |
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.
Whitten in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 335,673 of them was named Whitten, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,485 names at #15,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 59,807 of them was named Whitten, which outranked 74.3% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,571Zealand31
- #3,571Zeno31
- #3,571Zhaire31
- #3,636Whitten30
- #3,636Adalberto30
- #3,636Adham30
- #3,636Adrik30
- #3,716Adian29
- #3,716Adley29
- #3,716Advith29
Tied with 79 names at #3,636; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.