Dewitt
Dewitt is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 259th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921161 births
- Best rank
- #259in 1893
- Since 1880
- 7,210people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,210 boys have been named Dewitt in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 161 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 161 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dewitt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 263 | |
| 1890s | 351 | |
| 1900s | 309 | |
| 1910s | 1,035 | |
| 1920s | 1,402 | |
| 1930s | 941 | |
| 1940s | 843 | |
| 1950s | 721 | |
| 1960s | 474 | |
| 1970s | 285 | |
| 1980s | 235 | |
| 1990s | 150 | |
| 2000s | 102 | |
| 2010s | 71 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dewitt was the 487th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Dewitt
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Percypeak 1921
- Roepeak 1916
- Claudepeak 1920
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Parkpeak 1923
- Archiepeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Homerpeak 1920
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.