Whittany

Last seen for girls in 1999 at #11,385

Peak · girls
1991 · 20 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
129
since 1986

Whittany over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Whittany has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #4,808, 1991girls
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Whittany! It came in at #7,749, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Whittany is popular in 1989

No state had 5 or more girls named Whittany in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Whittany
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1999
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 1991 at #4,808 (20 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 93,750
  • Highest: 1 in 93,750 girls born in 1991 were named Whittany (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 253,403 girls born in 1999 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 67.4% of all girls named Whittany (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s42#4,848 (1989)#7,443
1990s87#4,808 (1991)#8,648

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.

Whittany in 1989

girls
#4,848
18 births · 1 in 102,420 girls

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #4,848Whittany18
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 102,420 of them was named Whittany, which outranked 66.7% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Whittany
  1. #4,670Vy19
  2. #4,670Yen19
  3. #4,670Zelda19
  4. #4,848Whittany18
  5. #4,848Abigael18
  6. #4,848Abigal18
  7. #4,848Aditi18
  8. #5,049Adriann17
  9. #5,049Aigner17
  10. #5,049Alanah17

Tied with 200 names at #4,848; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. ↑ 9,523Audriana#10,386 → #863
  2. ↑ 7,504Martika#8,391 → #887
  3. ↑ 6,932Audrianna#7,691 → #759
  4. ↑ 3,972Elizabet#4,496 → #524
  5. ↑ 1,772Katherin#2,489 → #717
Fallers
  1. ↓ 539Diandra#905 → #1,444
  2. ↓ 524Taja#720 → #1,244
  3. ↓ 455Jonathan#999 → #1,454
  4. ↓ 445Katarina#960 → #1,405
  5. ↓ 397Caryn#816 → #1,213

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

See the top 100 for 1989 →