Whitney — #1049 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Whitney

The Social Security Administration has registered 97,424 babies named Whitney between 1936 and 2024, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Whitney currently holds the #1049 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 9,536 babies received it in a single year. Whitney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,979 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Whitney performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 44,372 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Whitney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 8,061 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Whitney in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Whitney 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 97,424 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.