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Whitney
Rank in 2024
#1,049
Born in 2024
238
Peak year
1986 · #32
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:13 in 2024 (#6,467)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 238 girls were named Whitney, about 1 in every 6,778.
- It peaked in 1986 with 9,536 babies, ranked #32.
- It first shows up in the records in 1936.
- 97,424 girls have been named Whitney since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Whitney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 2.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 87 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,030 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,449 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Millennials: 71,091 babies, 2.52 per 1,000. Gen Z: 13,807 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,960 babies, 0.19 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island".
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston.
- A male given name from surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Whitney, CC BY-SA 4.0.