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Dewitt

#12,506 in 2025Boys' name

The, through de

Dewitt has been given to 7,216 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,506 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Dewitt, 2025

1 in 663,000

Dewitt over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dewitt: meaning, origin, and history

The, through de

surname transfer

What Dewitt means

Dewitt belongs to the name family reached through Dewitt → de. Its meaning is “the”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Dutch de Witt. The verb sense alludes to the 17th-century assassination by lynching of Dutch politicians Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dewitt (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dewitt is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Dewitt comes through Dutch de and Dutch de Witt.

Dewitt is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include de.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,216 boys were recorded with the name Dewitt between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 161 in 1921; its best national rank was #259 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,510 in 2020 to #12,506 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,628 in 2015 to #12,506 in 2025.

How common is Dewitt?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,506
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dewitt sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dewitt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dewitts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dewitt was born before 1932 — so the typical Dewitt is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (1,402).

Is Dewitt 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,878
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.1%
Peak was 1921 (161)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#259
1893

Spellings of Dewitt

Dewitt is the most-used spelling, taking 72.6% of the 9,933 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dewitt is used

Across 1910–2025, Dewitt was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 40,816 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

027 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,704
  2. 2Alabama1 in 14,286
  3. 3Georgia1 in 14,286
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 14,286
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 14,286
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 20,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dewitt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Dewitt

People whose public names include Dewitt, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dewitt in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dewitt. Linked forms have their own page here.

DewetDe Witt

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dewitt by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,506
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4
Best rank ever
#259
1893
Peak year
1921
161 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,216
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Dewitt

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dewitt

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dewitt, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dewitt

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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