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Witten

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Witten is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
400.00% of boys
Peak year
2018127 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 2007
1,031people given the name
Babies named Witten, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

974 boys have been named Witten in the United States since 2007, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 127 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 65%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 57 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Witten
2000s40
2010s635
2020s299

In 2018, its biggest year

Witten was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Witten

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.