Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Whitten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Whitten” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Whitten” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Whitten” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Whitten” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Whitten” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Whitten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Whitten” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 30 0.000008094 5 25 -67%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 -100%
2018 39 0.000011092 5 34 -74%
2019 35 0.000010084 5 30 -71%
2020 29 0.000008681 29 -100%
2021 39 0.000011511 7 32 -64%
2022 43 0.00001271 43 -100%
2023 37 0.000011174 37 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

Explore other names

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  5. Whittany
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  10. Whittnie
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