Whittney
Whittney was last recorded in 2013, when 7 babies were given it; 1,638 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Whittney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Whittney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Whittney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,512, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
154 babies in 1987, the peak
Whittney peaked in 1987, when 154 babies were given it (149 girls, #1,043 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,512 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,892 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,646 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,864 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,031 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,770 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,580 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,851 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,880 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,694 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 19 | #6,281 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,658 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,303 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,139 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,206 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,295 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,099 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,296 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,238 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,020 | 39.2 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,809 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,698 | 48.3 |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,390 | 61.9 |
| 1990 | 145 | #1,181 | 76.4 |
| 1989 | 134 | #1,209 | 72.7 |
| 1988 | 141 | #1,108 | 79.2 |
| 1987 | 149 | #1,043 | 85.7 |
| 1986 | 151 | #1,017 | 88.0 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,491 | 48.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,623 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,283 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,360 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,955 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,307 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,931 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Whittney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Whittney has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Whittney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Whittney, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,638 Americans ever recorded as Whittney. The median Whittney alive today is 36 years old; half are between 32 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,430 people named Whittney (1,404 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 272 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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).
How common is the spelling Whittney?
Whittney is a less common spelling of Whitney: SSA has recorded 1,638 Whittney and 103,657 Whitney since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 106,083 babies since 1880, Whittney is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 251 babies recorded by SSA was a Whittney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Whittney
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 Whittney and names like it
- Compare Whittney and WhitneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sWhittney peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Whittney since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Whittney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Whittney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with WMost given first.