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Whitten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,938 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Whitten in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,938 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Whitten: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,938 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 43 (2025).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Whitten, making it the 2,938th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,255 places from #4,193 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 26 boys named Whitten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,938, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #4,171 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Whitten in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 538 US babies have been given the name, 4.1% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 245 babies named Whitten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 323 US boys were named Whitten; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Whitten ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,180 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,180 | #1,042 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,407 | #2,375 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,938 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,193 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,288 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,959 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,390 | 32 | #3,578 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,728 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,851 | 30 | #3,713 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,990 | 34 | #3,370 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,767 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,932 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,171 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,073 | 25 | #4,128 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,639 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,851 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,979 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #5,035 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,666 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,984 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,685 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,282 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,799 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,606 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #12,239 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,552 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #11,262 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,767 |
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).