Whit
Whit was given to 79 boys in 2025, #1,958 among boys’ names; 1,287 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Whit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Whit?
#1,958 among boys’ names, 2025
Whit rose from #3,873 in 2015 to #1,958 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 46.3 per million.
79 babies in 2025, the peak
Whit peaked in 2025, when 79 boys were given it, #1,958 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 71 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #1,958 | 46.3 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,116 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,413 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,559 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,770 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,840 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,252 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,598 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,664 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,770 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,873 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,977 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,221 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #5,024 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,414 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,746 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,070 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,672 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,555 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,962 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,609 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,137 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,835 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,608 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,494 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,080 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,854 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,384 | 3.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,237 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,782 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,500 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,952 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,254 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,218 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,037 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,735 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,568 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,175 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,081 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,136 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,275 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,586 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,668 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,524 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,418 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,041 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #4,035 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,630 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,701 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,577 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,554 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,638 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,370 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,789 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,381 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,734 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,525 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,507 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,237 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,008 | 4.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,366 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,987 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,418 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,955 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,029 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,985 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,666 | 7.8 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,167 | 6.3 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,716 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,188 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,134 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,354 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,090 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,528 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,545 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,067 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,768 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,370 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,146 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,891 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,219 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,294 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,854 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,596 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,379 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,088 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,556 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,535 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,068 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,449 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,941 | 19.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,733 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,672 | 30.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,406 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,088 | 52.9 |
| 1903 | 8 | #908 | 67.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,311 | 40.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,499 | 33.2 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,236 | 42.6 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,230 | 43.2 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,248 | 41.0 |
| 1891 | 8 | #763 | 79.1 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,025 | 49.6 |
| 1886 | 10 | #645 | 90.3 |
| 1884 | 6 | #968 | 52.4 |
| 1883 | 6 | #884 | 57.3 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,091 | 44.0 |
| 1881 | 6 | #863 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Whit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Whit has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Whit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Whit, and how old are they?
An estimated 888 Americans named Whit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 926 people named Whit (89 women and girls, 837 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 583 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,715 babies since 1880, Whit is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 116 babies (68%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Whit
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 Whit and names like it
- Compare Whit and WhittBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Whit.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Whit alive today were born 2013-2025.
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