Whitman
#3,507 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Whitman has been given to 901 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #3,507 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Whitman, 2025
1 in 100,000
Whitman 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Whitman?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 100,000
- 33 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 51,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,507
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 69,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Whitman 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Whitman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Whitmans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Whitman was born before 2011 — so the typical Whitman is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 772
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (308).
Is Whitman 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
- +682
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +217
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +79
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.06×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 84.6%
- Peak was 2018 (39)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Whitman
Whitman is the most-used spelling, taking 63.6% of the 1,417 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Whitman63.6%901
- Whitten36.4%516
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 Whitman is used
Across 1910–2025, Whitman was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,186,345 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Whitman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Whitman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Whitman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Whitman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.