Whitney
Whitney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 238 births. Its best rank was 32nd, in 1986–1987.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2380.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19869,536 births
- Best rank
- #32first in 1986
- Since 1936
- 103,403people given the name
The story in the numbers
97,424 girls have been named Whitney in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 9,536 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 238 births in 2024, against 9,536 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 46%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,979 boys have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Whitney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 30 | |
| 1940s | 95 | |
| 1950s | 122 | |
| 1960s | 2,147 | |
| 1970s | 5,003 | |
| 1980s | 44,372 | |
| 1990s | 32,886 | |
| 2000s | 7,182 | |
| 2010s | 4,323 | |
| 2020s | 1,264 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Whitney was the 32nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Whitney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Krystinapeak 1987
- Shatarapeak 1986
- Porschapeak 1989
- Whittneypeak 1986
- Ashelypeak 1987
- Cherellepeak 1986
- Britnipeak 1989
- Porschepeak 1987
Other spellings in the data
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.