Witney
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 26 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 190since 1983
Witney over time
Rank among girls' names. Witney has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
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| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
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| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
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| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
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| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
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| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
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| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Witney! It came in at #6,705, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Witney is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more girls named Witney in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Witney
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 1986 at #3,360 (26 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 65,983 girls born in 1986 were named Witney (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,172 girls born in 2021 (0.00%)
- 43.7% of all girls named Witney (83) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 79 | #3,360 (1986) | #6,069 |
| 1990s | 83 | #5,060 (1990) | #9,614 |
| 2000s | 17 | #9,482 (2002) | #11,703 |
| 2010s | 6 | #14,331 (2016) | #14,331 |
| 2020s | 5 | #15,251 (2021) | #15,251 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Witney in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 133,741 of them was named Witney, which outranked 57.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,312Yoana14
- #5,312Zinnia14
- #5,312Zoey14
- #5,613Witney13
- #5,613Adrienna13
- #5,613Aidan13
- #5,613Aishah13
- #5,923Abigal12
- #5,923Adonna12
- #5,923Adriel12
Tied with 309 names at #5,613; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.