Whitfield

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,987

Peak · boys
1890 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
434
since 1890

Whitfield over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Whitfield has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201929peak #994, 1890boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025—
2024#8,9878
2023#12,2395
2022#12,3305
2021#10,7996
2020#8,0679
2019—
2018#7,13611
2017#10,7756
2016#10,7446
2015#12,0865
2014#8,7818
2013#12,1365
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2011#10,8086
2010#12,2315
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2002#8,4567
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1977#5,1236
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1973#5,1015
1972#4,9865
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1970#4,2306
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1962#3,3057
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1960#3,0778
1959#3,0378
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1957#3,9935
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1955#3,2017
1954#3,4526
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1952#3,7345
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1950#3,6815
1949#2,8028
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1946#2,6908
1945#3,3385
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1940#3,4595
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1937#3,5185
1936#3,5495
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1934#2,9737
1933#3,2686
1932#2,31311
1931—
1930#3,5926
1929#2,09614
1928#2,8439
1927#2,40812
1926#2,43612
1925#2,75510
1924#2,47312
1923#2,33113
1922#2,63011
1921#1,90418
1920#3,8156
1919#1,81118
1918#4,1795
1917#2,28012
1916#3,5166
1915#2,8298
1914#2,2719
1913#2,4966
1912#2,0457
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1907#1,3455
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1893#1,0355
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1890#9945
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five boys were named Whitfield! It came in at #994, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Whitfield is popular in 1929

No state had 5 or more boys named Whitfield in 1929, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Whitfield
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1890 at #994 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1890
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,205
  • Highest: 1 in 22,205 boys born in 1890 were named Whitfield (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,361 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 27.0% of all boys named Whitfield (117) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s10#994 (1890)#1,015
1900s5#1,345 (1907)#1,345
1910s71#1,811 (1919)#2,678
1920s117#1,904 (1921)#2,569
1930s40#2,313 (1932)#3,202
1940s26#2,690 (1946)#3,072
1950s36#3,037 (1959)#3,516
1960s15#3,077 (1960)#3,191
1970s22#4,230 (1970)#4,860
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s7#8,456 (2002)#8,456
2010s52#7,136 (2018)#10,587
2020s33#8,067 (2020)#10,484

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.

Whitfield in 1929

boys
#2,096
14 births · 1 in 76,830 boys

Top boys' names in 1929

  1. #1Robert59,807
  2. #2James52,135
  3. #3John52,112
  4. #4William47,815
  5. #5Charles29,930
  6. #6Richard29,572
  7. #7Donald27,181
  8. #8George23,020
  9. #9Joseph21,165
  10. #10Edward17,220
  11. #2,096Whitfield14
More about 1929

boys

1,075,615 boys got a published name in 1929; 1 in 76,830 of them was named Whitfield, which outranked 53.9% of the 4,545 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Whitfield
  1. #2,002Webb15
  2. #2,002Wilhelm15
  3. #2,002Zeno15
  4. #2,096Whitfield14
  5. #2,096Abie14
  6. #2,096Adelard14
  7. #2,096Adron14
  8. #2,199Ace13
  9. #2,199Adrain13
  10. #2,199Almer13

Tied with 102 names at #2,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1928
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,188Davey#2,843 → #655
  2. ↑ 554Davie#1,413 → #859
  3. ↑ 374Derald#1,095 → #721
  4. ↑ 358Vernal#1,353 → #995
  5. ↑ 350Ken#1,228 → #878
Fallers
  1. ↓ 530Adolf#950 → #1,480
  2. ↓ 426Quinton#913 → #1,339
  3. ↓ 349Thornton#963 → #1,312
  4. ↓ 346Verlyn#891 → #1,237
  5. ↓ 346Isidore#891 → #1,237

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1929 →