Whitelaw
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Whitelaw has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1892, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Whitelaw, 1892
1 in 66,900
Whitelaw 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Whitelaw?
Whitelaw had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1892, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1892
- 1 in 66,900
- 5 of 334,360 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 24,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1892
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,353 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Whitelaw sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1892 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 46,353 children born in 1892 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Whitelaw. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Whitelaws were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Whitelaw was born before 1892 — so the typical Whitelaw is around 133 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1890s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1890s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Whitelaw 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1892 (5)
- Years since peak
- 133
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Whitelaw by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Whitelaw
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Whitelaw
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.