Whitten
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- WIT-un
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #2,883 for boys
Whitten is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “white settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 2,883rd for boys in the US (43 babies).
What does Whitten mean?
English: English place-name surname
“white settlement”
Is Whitten a girl's or a boy's name?
Whitten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 43 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Whitten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,883rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 43 about 1 in 40,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 43 boys in the US were named Whitten, making it the 2,883rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,650th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 43 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Whitten in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 91 boys in the US were given Whitten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,575, up from #2,883 for this spelling alone.
Whitten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,883 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,069 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,226 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,917 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,650 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,298 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,674 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,011 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,682 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,487 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
Nicknames for Whitten
- Whit 79 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Whitten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wilder, Wesson, Chozen, Hudson, Westin, Colson, Boden, Wylder, Easton, Kingston, Sevyn, Holden
Other spellings of Whitten
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Whitten: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/whitten, updated 20 October 2026.