Newt
Newt was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,069 among boys’ names; 852 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Newt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Newt?
#7,069 among boys’ names, 2025
Newt rose from #9,310 in 2015 to #7,069 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 7.0 per million.
20 babies in 1914, the peak
Newt peaked in 1914, when 20 boys were given it, #1,378 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,069 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,168 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,484 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,624 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,475 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,047 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,982 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,018 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,310 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,393 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,390 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,633 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,844 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,763 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,918 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,137 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,510 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,743 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,918 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,082 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,101 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,812 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,021 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,056 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,777 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,159 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,045 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,680 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 9 | #979 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,083 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,194 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 9 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,025 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 9 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 7 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 11 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 10 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,190 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 6 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 6 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 8 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 10 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 7 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 13 | #506 | 0.13 |
| 1886 | 8 | #742 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 7 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 6 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 15 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 14 | #508 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 10 | #580 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 10 | #625 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Newt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Newt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Newt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Newt, and how old are they?
An estimated 297 Americans named Newt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Newt (11 women and girls, 331 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Newt rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Newt
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 Newt and names like it
- Compare Newt and OleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNewt peaked in 1914.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Newt since 1910.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Newt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Newt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.