Dewitt
Dewitt was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,506 among boys’ names; 7,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Dewitt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 45 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dewitt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dewitt mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dewitt is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From Dutch de Witt. The verb sense alludes to the 17th-century assassination by lynching of Dutch politicians Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dewitt?
#12,506 among boys’ names, 2025
Dewitt fell from #7,628 in 2015 to #12,506 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
161 babies in 1921, the peak
Dewitt peaked in 1921, when 161 boys were given it, #487 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,506 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,991 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,191 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,024 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,509 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,995 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,926 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,682 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,628 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,687 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #9,907 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,732 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,953 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,776 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,194 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,851 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,734 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,999 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,796 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,644 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,389 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,478 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,945 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,558 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,957 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,903 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,068 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,196 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,069 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,918 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,155 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,354 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,600 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,022 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,900 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 38 | #1,369 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,501 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,151 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,257 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,244 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,258 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 66 | #938 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,029 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 62 | #967 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,085 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 58 | #1,012 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,037 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 66 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 69 | #914 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 77 | #854 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 71 | #877 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 70 | #880 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 77 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 77 | #801 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 81 | #781 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 78 | #772 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 94 | #708 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 83 | #739 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 83 | #754 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 88 | #690 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 71 | #729 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 87 | #664 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 94 | #662 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 86 | #695 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 80 | #683 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 78 | #686 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 84 | #647 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 76 | #694 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 100 | #576 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 97 | #587 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 77 | #689 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 81 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 81 | #645 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 120 | #535 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 98 | #590 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 127 | #529 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 111 | #561 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 107 | #598 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 136 | #524 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 121 | #560 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 144 | #508 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 151 | #511 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 160 | #481 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 159 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 161 | #487 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 152 | #489 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 150 | #487 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 159 | #470 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 133 | #499 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 140 | #481 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 122 | #504 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 93 | #507 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 80 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1912 | 77 | #446 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 37 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1910 | 44 | #396 | 0.23 |
| 1909 | 37 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1908 | 25 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1907 | 21 | #516 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 33 | #367 | 0.25 |
| 1905 | 38 | #326 | 0.29 |
| 1904 | 31 | #361 | 0.24 |
| 1903 | 27 | #372 | 0.23 |
| 1902 | 33 | #341 | 0.27 |
| 1901 | 27 | #353 | 0.25 |
| 1900 | 37 | #361 | 0.25 |
| 1899 | 23 | #386 | 0.22 |
| 1898 | 44 | #269 | 0.36 |
| 1897 | 30 | #340 | 0.27 |
| 1896 | 31 | #341 | 0.26 |
| 1895 | 40 | #280 | 0.34 |
| 1894 | 34 | #300 | 0.29 |
| 1893 | 46 | #259 | 0.41 |
| 1892 | 42 | #280 | 0.34 |
| 1891 | 31 | #298 | 0.31 |
| 1890 | 30 | #317 | 0.27 |
| 1889 | 34 | #288 | 0.31 |
| 1888 | 32 | #315 | 0.26 |
| 1887 | 31 | #299 | 0.31 |
| 1886 | 35 | #289 | 0.32 |
| 1885 | 19 | #415 | 0.18 |
| 1884 | 20 | #402 | 0.17 |
| 1883 | 21 | #374 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 17 | #439 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 24 | #334 | 0.24 |
| 1880 | 30 | #306 | 0.27 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dewitt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dewitt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 143 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dewitt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dewitt, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 7,216 Americans ever recorded as Dewitt. The median Dewitt alive today is 64 years old; half are between 45 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,132 people named Dewitt (18 women and girls, 2,114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 296 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 879 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 437 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 301 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 78 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dewitt born?
The states with the most babies named Dewitt are Mississippi, North Carolina and Georgia, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 583 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| North Carolina | 357 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 327 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 309 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 290 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 211 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 174 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 164 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 161 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 129 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Dewitt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dewitt is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dewitt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dewitt
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dewitt and names like it
- Compare Dewitt and PercyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDewitt peaked in 1921.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dewitt since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Dewitt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Dewitt.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dewitt alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.