Whitten
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #12,206 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 95.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 43 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 516since 1997
Whitten over time
Rank among boys' names. Whitten has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,228 | 37 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #3,497 | 32 |
| 2020 | — | #3,653 | 29 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | — | #3,678 | 29 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,776 | 20 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,080 | 25 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,686 | 20 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,848 | 19 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
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| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Whitten! It came in at #9,265, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–2002, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Whitten is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#1,040 · 1 in 7,354
- Texas#1,347 · 1 in 12,504
Best ever in a state: #823 in Tennessee, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Texas | #1,347 | 14 | 1 in 12,504 |
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See more about Whitten
- 1,188 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #2,884)
- 769 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #2,884)
- 1,196 spots since 2015 (#4,080 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2025 at #2,884 (43 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 were named Whitten (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all boys named Whitten (230) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 15 | #9,265 (1997) | #9,603 |
| 2000s | 61 | #5,492 (2004) | #8,416 |
| 2010s | 230 | #3,301 (2018) | #4,500 |
| 2020s | 210 | #2,884 (2025) | #3,376 |
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.
Whitten in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 39,723 of them was named Whitten, which outranked 79.3% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #2,833Zakhari44
- #2,833Zubayr44
- #2,833Zylan44
- #2,884Whitten43
- #2,884Abdias43
- #2,884Aceyn43
- #2,884Ahad43
- #2,941Abhiram42
- #2,941Akhari42
- #2,941Aleister42
Tied with 56 names at #2,884; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.