Whitton
#8,211 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Whitton has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #8,211 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Whitton, 2025
1 in 332,000
Whitton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Whitton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,211
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Whitton 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Whitton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Whittons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Whitton was born before 2020 — so the typical Whitton is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 114
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (68).
Is Whitton 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
- −1,765
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,614
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2024 (14)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Spellings of Whitton
Whitton is not the most common spelling — Wilton is, with 31.3% against Whitton's 0.41%.
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.
Whitton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Whitton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Whitton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.