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Dewan vs Dewitt

American parents have registered 7,216 Dewitts since 1880, against 669 Dewans. Dewitt is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dewan against Dewitt, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dewan Dewitt

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Dewitt for 133 years and Dewan for 13 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Dewan Dewitt
Total US births 6697,216
Most in one year 27161
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 6302,200
Median age today 3663
Peak year 19791921
Best rank 1,943rd boys487th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19621880
Girls / boys 16 / 6530 / 7,216

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dewitts alive today are over 63; half the Dewans are over 36. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dewan and Dewitt.