Dewight
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dewight has been given to 528 babies in the U.S. since 1930. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Dewight, 2016
1 in 734,000
Dewight over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dewight?
Dewight had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dewight sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dewight. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dewights were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dewight was born before 1972 — so the typical Dewight is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 22.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 472
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (120).
Is Dewight rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (19)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dewight
Dewight is not the most common spelling — Dwight is, with 91.0% against Dewight's 0.61%.
Dewight by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dewight
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dewight
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.