Meaning not yet researched.
Dwight: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #122 in 1953.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #122 in 1953; #2,774 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dwight in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,774 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1953, at #122.
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Dwight: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #122 in 1953 · most boys in one year: 2,698 (1953).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Dwight, making it the 2,774th most common boys’ name of the year, down 264 places from #2,510 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 54 boys named Dwight in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #122, reached in 1953. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,698. For comparison, it was #1,570 in 2015 and #146 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dwight in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 78,907 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 20,938 babies named Dwight.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 733 US boys were named Dwight; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dwight ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,566 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dewey (34,920 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Dwight in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,566 | #2,350 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 46 | #2,774 |
| 2024 | — | — | 54 | #2,510 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,296 |
| 2022 | — | — | 57 | #2,447 |
| 2021 | — | — | 70 | #2,083 |
| 2020 | — | — | 82 | #1,817 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,921 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,690 |
| 2017 | — | — | 94 | #1,686 |
| 2016 | — | — | 99 | #1,620 |
| 2015 | — | — | 103 | #1,570 |
| 2014 | — | — | 129 | #1,342 |
| 2013 | — | — | 133 | #1,300 |
| 2012 | — | — | 136 | #1,287 |
| 2011 | — | — | 138 | #1,253 |
| 2010 | — | — | 142 | #1,244 |
| 2009 | — | — | 168 | #1,099 |
| 2008 | — | — | 142 | #1,227 |
| 2007 | — | — | 165 | #1,106 |
| 2006 | — | — | 161 | #1,094 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,084 |
| 2004 | — | — | 195 | #888 |
| 2003 | — | — | 177 | #928 |
| 2002 | — | — | 162 | #973 |
| 2001 | — | — | 186 | #863 |
| 2000 | — | — | 215 | #773 |
| 1999 | — | — | 243 | #692 |
| 1998 | — | — | 255 | #669 |
| 1997 | — | — | 244 | #670 |
| 1996 | — | — | 266 | #636 |
| 1995 | — | — | 303 | #588 |
| 1994 | — | — | 361 | #537 |
| 1993 | — | — | 360 | #541 |
| 1992 | — | — | 410 | #494 |
| 1991 | — | — | 466 | #458 |
| 1990 | — | — | 493 | #446 |
| 1989 | — | — | 488 | #424 |
| 1988 | — | — | 487 | #411 |
| 1987 | — | — | 549 | #355 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,797 | 509 | #367 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,584 | 502 | #366 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,459 | 571 | #330 |
| 1983 | — | — | 536 | #340 |
| 1982 | — | — | 492 | #363 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,421 | 515 | #348 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,406 | 517 | #350 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,306 | 546 | #335 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,842 | 489 | #347 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,058 | 573 | #325 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,695 | 602 | #299 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,276 | 673 | #286 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,884 | 700 | #271 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,790 | 715 | #265 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,620 | 773 | #257 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,892 | 906 | #249 |
| 1970 | — | — | 1,026 | #231 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,023 | 1,200 | #209 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,307 | 943 | #233 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,062 | 984 | #223 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,594 | 1,049 | #215 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,994 | 1,227 | #203 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,433 | 1,256 | #216 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,086 | 1,448 | #204 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,628 | 1,514 | #201 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,998 | 1,669 | #185 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,979 | 1,720 | #181 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,743 | 1,593 | #186 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,422 | 1,697 | #175 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,531 | 2,029 | #159 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,247 | 2,369 | #139 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,363 | 2,159 | #142 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,790 | 2,034 | #145 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,774 | 2,698 | #122 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,890 | 2,407 | #123 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,332 | 2,050 | #134 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,511 | 1,812 | #146 |
| 1949 | — | — | 1,719 | #151 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,968 | 1,650 | #153 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,472 | 1,542 | #161 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,754 | 1,754 | #137 |
| 1945 | — | — | 1,753 | #126 |
| 1944 | — | — | 1,504 | #140 |
| 1943 | — | — | 1,234 | #158 |
| 1942 | — | — | 716 | #211 |
| 1941 | — | — | 536 | #238 |
| 1940 | — | — | 456 | #262 |
| 1939 | — | — | 394 | #279 |
| 1938 | — | — | 435 | #264 |
| 1937 | — | — | 406 | #271 |
| 1936 | — | — | 418 | #266 |
| 1935 | — | — | 475 | #242 |
| 1934 | — | — | 506 | #229 |
| 1933 | — | — | 516 | #224 |
| 1932 | — | — | 635 | #202 |
| 1931 | — | — | 568 | #219 |
| 1930 | — | — | 542 | #233 |
| 1929 | — | — | 471 | #257 |
| 1928 | — | — | 454 | #267 |
| 1927 | — | — | 464 | #265 |
| 1926 | — | — | 468 | #260 |
| 1925 | — | — | 470 | #262 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,616 | 450 | #270 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,522 | 431 | #271 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,119 | 447 | #268 |
| 1921 | — | — | 493 | #254 |
| 1920 | — | — | 412 | #273 |
| 1919 | — | — | 380 | #270 |
| 1918 | — | — | 405 | #264 |
| 1917 | — | — | 349 | #274 |
| 1916 | — | — | 397 | #250 |
| 1915 | — | — | 337 | #263 |
| 1914 | — | — | 284 | #257 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,318 | 206 | #268 |
| 1912 | — | — | 186 | #260 |
| 1911 | — | — | 87 | #281 |
| 1910 | — | — | 55 | #332 |
| 1909 | — | — | 43 | #359 |
| 1908 | — | — | 50 | #311 |
| 1907 | — | — | 58 | #274 |
| 1906 | — | — | 59 | #258 |
| 1905 | — | — | 35 | #347 |
| 1904 | — | — | 46 | #280 |
| 1903 | — | — | 28 | #361 |
| 1902 | — | — | 40 | #303 |
| 1901 | — | — | 37 | #284 |
| 1900 | — | — | 59 | #267 |
| 1899 | — | — | 41 | #269 |
| 1898 | — | — | 35 | #325 |
| 1897 | — | — | 25 | #379 |
| 1896 | — | — | 28 | #363 |
| 1895 | — | — | 22 | #419 |
| 1894 | — | — | 25 | #371 |
| 1893 | — | — | 24 | #369 |
| 1892 | — | — | 28 | #359 |
| 1891 | — | — | 25 | #342 |
| 1890 | — | — | 24 | #358 |
| 1889 | — | — | 16 | #469 |
| 1888 | — | — | 21 | #405 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #382 |
| 1886 | — | — | 17 | #435 |
| 1885 | — | — | 30 | #309 |
| 1884 | — | — | 21 | #387 |
| 1883 | — | — | 11 | #568 |
| 1882 | — | — | 17 | #440 |
| 1881 | — | — | 21 | #364 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #541 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).