Witten
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 94.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,013since 2007
Witten over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #3,128 | 38 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,001 | 41 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #2,321 | 59 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,621 | 99 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,723 | 91 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,385 | 127 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,605 | 100 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #1,936 | 75 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | — | #2,542 | 48 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,623 | 45 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,221 | 23 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,099 | 24 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,160 | 24 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Witten! It came in at #12,367, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Witten
- 127 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #3,128)
- 1,507 spots since 2020 (#1,621 → #3,128)
- 1,197 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #3,128)
- Debuted 2007
- Peaked 2018 at #1,385 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,300 boys born in 2018 were named Witten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 62.7% of all boys named Witten (635) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 40 | #4,160 (2009) | #7,905 |
| 2010s | 635 | #1,385 (2018) | #2,587 |
| 2020s | 338 | #1,621 (2020) | #2,581 |
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.
Witten in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 40,018 of them was named Witten, which outranked 81.9% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,516Taven49
- #2,516Tiernan49
- #2,516Zyan49
- #2,542Witten48
- #2,542Abdurrahman48
- #2,542Adham48
- #2,542Ameen48
- #2,582Abbott47
- #2,582Bennet47
- #2,582Bill47
Tied with 39 names at #2,542; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.