Dewitt

25,012 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dewitt in the 2020 census, making it the 1,392nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,000.

By the numbers

People: 25,012
Rank: 1,392nd
How common: 1 in 12,000
Per 100,000: 8.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Dutch

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dewitt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dewitt

Rosemarie DeWitt (born 1971)American actress
Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004)American physicist
Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–2017)French mathematician and physicist
Helen DeWitt (born 1957)American writer
Joyce DeWitt (born 1949)American actress
Patrick deWitt (born 1975)Canadian novelist and screenwriter

People named Dewitt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dewitt

Also a first name

Dewitt has been given to 7,216 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.