Dewitt
Dewitt reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 487, and has been recorded 7,216 times in all. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 2,200 Dewitts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Dewitt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,216
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 487th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Dewitts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,216 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,200 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Dutch de Witt. The verb sense alludes to the 17th-century assassination by lynching of Dutch politicians Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dewitts
- DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828)American politician
People named Dewitt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dewitt is most common
Across the country Dewitt is recorded 0.96 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Dewitts are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Dewitt peaked:
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Dewitt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.