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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 323,310 of them was named Witten, which outranked 13.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #15,088; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 17,435 of them was named Witten, which outranked 88.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,609Paulo100
- #1,609Renzo100
- #1,609Roderick100
- #1,621Witten99
- #1,621Ammar99
- #1,621Chester99
- #1,621Darnell99
- #1,634Asiah98
- #1,634Dashiell98
- #1,634Davin98
Tied with 12 names at #1,621; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.