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Whitney

Rank in 2024
#6,467
Born in 2024
13
Peak year
1986 · #566
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:238 in 2024 (#1,049)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 13 boys were named Whitney, about 1 in every 131,947.
  • It peaked in 1986 with 245 babies, ranked #566.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1884.
  • 5,979 boys 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.

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Greatest: 745 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 652 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,070 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,363 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,738 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 217 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 149 babies, 0.01 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.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Whitney, CC BY-SA 4.0.