Whit
#1,958 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Whit has been given to 1,287 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #1,958 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Whit, 2025
1 in 42,000
Whit 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Whit?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 21,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,958
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Whit sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Whit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Whits were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Whit was born before 2003 — so the typical Whit is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 27.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 913
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (350).
Is Whit 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
- +158
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +882
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,915
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.82×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (79)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.8% average annual change
Spellings of Whit
Whit is not the most common spelling — Phil is, with 37.1% against Whit's 2.4%.
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 Whit is used
Across 2016–2025, Whit was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 33,391 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Whit around the world
Where Whit ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Whit by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Whit
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Whit
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.