Whyatt
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- WY-ut
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Whyatt is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “brave in war”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Whyatt mean?
English: variant spelling of Wyatt, from Old English wig and heard
“brave in war”
Variant of Wyatt, from a medieval name meaning brave in war; Wyatt Earp was a famous lawman of the American West.
Is Whyatt a girl's or a boy's name?
Whyatt is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Whyatt in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Whyatt, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the boys named Whyatt in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,485 boys in the US were given Whyatt or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #44, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
- Wyatt 6,480
- Whyatt 5
Whyatt in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,962 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,030 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,707 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,474 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,142 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
Names like Whyatt
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Tatum, Musa, Zahir, Beckett, Beckham, Jamir, Zamir, Nasir, Sawyer, Amir, Zayd
Other spellings of Whyatt
Names related to Whyatt
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Whyatt: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/whyatt, updated 20 October 2026.