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Whitnee

Girl · WIT-nee · English

Whitnee is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “white island”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Whitnee mean?

English: variant spelling of Whitney, an English place name

“white island”

Variant of Whitney, an English surname from a place name meaning white island in Old English.

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Is Whitnee a girl's or a boy's name?

Whitnee is a girls' name.

How popular is Whitnee in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1986, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the girls named Whitnee in the US since 1880 were born between 1987 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.

1979Busiest: 51 in 19862015
Whitnee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20159#10,861
20140–
20138#11,964
20126#14,956
201113#8,610
20106#14,953
20098#12,423
20080–
20078#12,671
20067#13,601
200512#8,878
20045#16,092
200310#9,666
20025#15,426
200114#7,311
200015#6,802
199913#7,233
199810#8,579
199719#5,224
199628#3,826
199529#3,665
199432#3,443
199325#4,095
199222#4,521
199133#3,295
199031#3,431
198931#3,324
198846#2,364
198748#2,234
198651#2,078
198528#3,169
198410#6,290
19835#10,272
19829#6,886
19810–
19805#10,390
19796#9,008

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