Newt
Newt reached its high-water mark in 1914 at number 1,342, and has been recorded 852 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 300 Newts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Newt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 852
- Estimated living today
- 300
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 1914
- Best rank
- 1,342nd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Newts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 852 babies given the name since 1880, about 300 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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.
Notable Newts
- Newt Gingrich (born 1943)American politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
People named Newt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Newt is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1914
The most popular boys’ names the year Newt peaked:
Related names
Newt 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.