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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Witten is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#435 · 1 in 1,933
- Iowa#555 · 1 in 2,872
- Texas#590 · 1 in 3,886
- Missouri#858 · 1 in 6,069
- Virginia#1,008 · 1 in 8,147
Best ever in a state: #255 in South Dakota, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #435 | 7 | 1 in 1,933 |
| Iowa | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,872 |
| Texas | #590 | 45 | 1 in 3,886 |
| Missouri | #858 | 5 | 1 in 6,069 |
| Virginia | #1,008 | 5 | 1 in 8,147 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 9,945 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,223 | 5 | 1 in 11,453 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 170,107 of them was named Witten, which outranked 46.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,151Zula11
- #9,151Zyasia11
- #9,151Zyiah11
- #9,806Witten10
- #9,806Aaditri10
- #9,806Aaleiya10
- #9,806Aamani10
- #10,545Aadaya9
- #10,545Aafiya9
- #10,545Aalaya9
Tied with 738 names at #9,806; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 14,300 of them was named Witten, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,375Octavio128
- #1,375Ramsey128
- #1,375Wylder128
- #1,385Witten127
- #1,385Arham127
- #1,385Carmine127
- #1,385Cristobal127
- #1,396Aaryan126
- #1,396Johann126
- #1,396Kennedy126
Tied with 10 names at #1,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.