Witten
Witten was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,178 among boys’ names; 1,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Witten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 6 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Witten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Witten?
#3,178 among boys’ names, 2025
Witten fell from #1,950 in 2015 to #3,178 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.1 to 22.2 per million.
137 babies in 2018, the peak
Witten peaked in 2018, when 137 babies were given it (127 boys, #1,395 among boys’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,178 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,042 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,173 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,322 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,346 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,633 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,736 | 50.7 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,395 | 69.9 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,611 | 54.0 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,958 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #1,950 | 39.1 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,579 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,664 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,885 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,342 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,232 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,269 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,675 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,301 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Witten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,070 Americans recorded as Witten, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Witten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Witten, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,070 Americans ever recorded as Witten. The median Witten alive today is 8 years old; half are between 6 and 11.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 113 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 949 |
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.
Where are babies named Witten born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,474 | 3.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,183 | 1.0× |
Where Witten is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Witten is most over-represented in Texas: since 2007 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Witten with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Witten
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 Witten and names like it
- Compare Witten and RaylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sWitten peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Witten since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Witten.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Witten alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.