Dwight
Dwight was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,773 among boys’ names; 78,907 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,400 Americans named Dwight and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 48 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwight by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dwight mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dwight is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Probably from a Middle English female name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, the feminine form of Dionysius.
/ˈdwaɪt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dwight?
#2,773 among boys’ names, 2025
Dwight fell from #1,570 in 2015 to #2,773 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 53.7 to 26.9 per million.
2,708 babies in 1953, the peak
Dwight peaked in 1953, when 2,708 babies were given it (2,698 boys, #122 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,773 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 54 | #2,510 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,295 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,446 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,082 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 82 | #1,817 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,921 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 93 | #1,690 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 94 | #1,686 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,620 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,570 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,342 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,300 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,287 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,253 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,244 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 168 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,227 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,106 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 195 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 177 | #927 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 162 | #972 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 186 | #862 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 215 | #771 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 243 | #690 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 255 | #669 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 244 | #670 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 266 | #636 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 303 | #587 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 361 | #536 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 360 | #541 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 410 | #494 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 466 | #458 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 493 | #445 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 488 | #424 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 487 | #411 | 0.25 |
| 1987 | 549 | #355 | 0.29 |
| 1986 | 509 | #367 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 502 | #366 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 571 | #330 | 0.32 |
| 1983 | 536 | #340 | 0.30 |
| 1982 | 492 | #363 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 515 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 517 | #350 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 546 | #335 | 0.32 |
| 1978 | 489 | #347 | 0.30 |
| 1977 | 573 | #325 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 602 | #299 | 0.38 |
| 1975 | 673 | #286 | 0.43 |
| 1974 | 700 | #271 | 0.45 |
| 1973 | 715 | #265 | 0.46 |
| 1972 | 773 | #257 | 0.48 |
| 1971 | 906 | #249 | 0.51 |
| 1970 | 1,026 | #231 | 0.55 |
| 1969 | 1,200 | #209 | 0.67 |
| 1968 | 943 | #233 | 0.54 |
| 1967 | 984 | #223 | 0.56 |
| 1966 | 1,049 | #215 | 0.59 |
| 1965 | 1,227 | #203 | 0.66 |
| 1964 | 1,256 | #216 | 0.63 |
| 1963 | 1,448 | #204 | 0.71 |
| 1962 | 1,514 | #201 | 0.73 |
| 1961 | 1,669 | #185 | 0.79 |
| 1960 | 1,720 | #181 | 0.81 |
| 1959 | 1,593 | #186 | 0.75 |
| 1958 | 1,697 | #175 | 0.80 |
| 1957 | 2,029 | #159 | 0.94 |
| 1956 | 2,369 | #139 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 2,159 | #142 | 1.0 |
| 1954 | 2,034 | #145 | 1.0 |
| 1953 | 2,698 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 2,407 | #123 | 1.2 |
| 1951 | 2,050 | #134 | 1.1 |
| 1950 | 1,812 | #146 | 1.0 |
| 1949 | 1,719 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1948 | 1,650 | #153 | 0.94 |
| 1947 | 1,542 | #161 | 0.84 |
| 1946 | 1,754 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 1,753 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1944 | 1,504 | #140 | 1.1 |
| 1943 | 1,234 | #158 | 0.86 |
| 1942 | 716 | #211 | 0.52 |
| 1941 | 536 | #238 | 0.44 |
| 1940 | 456 | #262 | 0.39 |
| 1939 | 394 | #279 | 0.36 |
| 1938 | 435 | #264 | 0.39 |
| 1937 | 406 | #271 | 0.38 |
| 1936 | 418 | #266 | 0.40 |
| 1935 | 475 | #242 | 0.46 |
| 1934 | 506 | #229 | 0.49 |
| 1933 | 516 | #224 | 0.52 |
| 1932 | 635 | #202 | 0.61 |
| 1931 | 568 | #219 | 0.55 |
| 1930 | 542 | #233 | 0.49 |
| 1929 | 471 | #257 | 0.44 |
| 1928 | 454 | #267 | 0.41 |
| 1927 | 464 | #265 | 0.41 |
| 1926 | 468 | #260 | 0.42 |
| 1925 | 470 | #262 | 0.42 |
| 1924 | 450 | #270 | 0.40 |
| 1923 | 431 | #271 | 0.39 |
| 1922 | 447 | #268 | 0.41 |
| 1921 | 493 | #254 | 0.45 |
| 1920 | 412 | #273 | 0.39 |
| 1919 | 380 | #270 | 0.39 |
| 1918 | 405 | #264 | 0.40 |
| 1917 | 349 | #274 | 0.38 |
| 1916 | 397 | #250 | 0.45 |
| 1915 | 337 | #263 | 0.40 |
| 1914 | 284 | #257 | 0.43 |
| 1913 | 206 | #268 | 0.40 |
| 1912 | 186 | #260 | 0.43 |
| 1911 | 87 | #281 | 0.39 |
| 1910 | 55 | #332 | 0.28 |
| 1909 | 43 | #359 | 0.26 |
| 1908 | 50 | #311 | 0.32 |
| 1907 | 58 | #274 | 0.40 |
| 1906 | 59 | #258 | 0.44 |
| 1905 | 35 | #347 | 0.26 |
| 1904 | 46 | #280 | 0.36 |
| 1903 | 28 | #361 | 0.23 |
| 1902 | 40 | #303 | 0.33 |
| 1901 | 37 | #284 | 0.35 |
| 1900 | 59 | #267 | 0.39 |
| 1899 | 41 | #269 | 0.39 |
| 1898 | 35 | #325 | 0.29 |
| 1897 | 25 | #379 | 0.22 |
| 1896 | 28 | #363 | 0.23 |
| 1895 | 22 | #419 | 0.19 |
| 1894 | 25 | #371 | 0.22 |
| 1893 | 24 | #369 | 0.21 |
| 1892 | 28 | #359 | 0.23 |
| 1891 | 25 | #342 | 0.25 |
| 1890 | 24 | #358 | 0.22 |
| 1889 | 16 | #469 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 21 | #405 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 19 | #382 | 0.19 |
| 1886 | 17 | #435 | 0.15 |
| 1885 | 30 | #309 | 0.28 |
| 1884 | 21 | #387 | 0.18 |
| 1883 | 11 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 17 | #440 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 21 | #364 | 0.21 |
| 1880 | 12 | #541 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwight a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwight has been given almost only to boys: 320 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dwight: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwight, and how old are they?
48,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 78,907 Americans ever recorded as Dwight. The median Dwight alive today is 63 years old; half are between 48 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 49,320 people named Dwight (84 women and girls, 49,236 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53,843 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3,000 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,950 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Dwight born?
The states with the most babies named Dwight are Ohio, North Carolina and Texas, with 19% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5,057 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 4,491 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 4,151 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 4,107 | #2,566 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 3,639 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 3,218 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,195 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 3,077 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 2,601 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 2,595 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Dwight is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dwight is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Dwight 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 Dwight
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 Dwight and names like it
- Compare Dwight and RandolphBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDwight peaked in 1953.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwight since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Dwight: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Dwight.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dwight alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.