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Whitton

Boy · WIT-un · English

Whitton is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “white settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Whitton mean?

English: spelling of Whitten; English place-name surname

“white settlement”

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WIT-un

Meaning borrowed from Whitten.

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

Whitton is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Whitton in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Whitton, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2014.

Half of all the boys named Whitton in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 91 boys in the US were given Whitton or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,575, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.

2014Busiest: 14 in 20242025
Whitton in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
202414#6,194
20237#9,757
202211#7,256
202113#6,330
202013#6,292
20198#8,883
201810#7,613
201711#7,091
20169#8,141
20150–
20148#8,775

Nicknames for Whitton

Names like Whitton

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Whitton

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