Whitnee — girls' name
607 babies named Whitnee in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Whitnee was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Whitnee in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Whitnee
The Social Security Administration has registered 607 babies named Whitnee between 1979 and 2015, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Whitnee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 51 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Whitnee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Whitnee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Whitnee in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Whitnee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 607 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Whitnee at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Whitnee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1979
- Peak year (1986)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
607 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 51 births in a single year.
Whitnee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 242 births that decade — 40% of Whitnee's all-time total
Whitnee decade highlights
- Peak decade 242 births
- Runner-up 233 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Whitnee's strongest decade
242 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Whitnee by state
Where Whitnee concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 31 | 5.1% |
| #2 | Utah | | 17 | 2.8% |
| #3 | California | | 16 | 2.6% |
| #4 | Idaho | | 5 | 0.8% |
31 of 607 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.1% of nationwide
- Utah 2.8% of nationwide
- California 2.6% of nationwide
- Idaho 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.