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Newt

#7,069 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Newton

Newt has been given to 852 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,069 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1914, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Newt, 2025

1 in 276,000

Newt over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Newt: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Newton

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Newt means

Newt is a short form of Newton.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Newt → Newton. The family’s meaning is “new town”, recorded in the naming reference for Newton.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Newton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 852 boys were recorded with the name Newt between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1914; its best national rank was #474 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,624 in 2020 to #7,069 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,310 in 2015 to #7,069 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Newt?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,069
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Newt 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Newt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Newts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Newt was born before 1929 — so the typical Newt is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
286
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1910s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Newt 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
−1,480
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,445
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,241
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1914 (20)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#474
1883

Spellings of Newt

Newt is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 30.6% against Newt's 0.25%.

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 Newt is used

Across 1910–2025, Newt was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 807,083 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Newt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Newt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,069
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,445
Best rank ever
#474
1883
Peak year
1914
20 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
852
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Newt

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

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Sibling names for Newt

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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