In 2025, 5 US boys were named Dewitt, making it the 12,510th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #259, reached in 1893. The most boys given the name in a single year was 161, in 1921. For comparison, it was #7,633 in 2015 and #773 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dewitt in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 30 babies. In all, 7,216 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,402 babies named Dewitt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 52 US boys were named Dewitt; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dewight, Dewitte and Dewit are summarised on this page.