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Dewey vs Dewitt

American parents have registered 34,920 Deweys since 1880, against 7,216 Dewitts. Dewey is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dewey against Dewitt, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dewey 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, Dewey for 130 years and Dewitt for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dewey Dewitt
Total US births 34,9207,216
Most in one year 1,219161
Babies in 2025 285
Estimated living today 11,0002,200
Median age today 6663
Peak year 18981921
Best rank 19th boys487th boys
Rank in 2025 3,848th12,008th
First recorded 18871880
Girls / boys 547 / 34,3730 / 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 Deweys alive today are over 66; half the Dewitts are over 63. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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