Witten — #3086 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Witten

The Social Security Administration has registered 974 babies named Witten between 2007 and 2024, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Witten currently holds the #3086 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 127 babies received it in a single year. Witten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 57 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Witten performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 635 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Witten shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 342 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Witten in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Witten 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 974 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.