girls:
11 births since 2014
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
716 births since 1949
#3871 (16th percentile)
overall:
727 births since 1949
#7012 (9th percentile)
The name Whitaker is the #7,012 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 727 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 9.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,871 (15.5% percentile) for all time with 716 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2014.
Whitaker first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Whitaker is available in 30 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Whitaker has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Whitaker reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #871) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 34 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Whitaker ranks #868 for boys (4.7% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 76.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Whitaker reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Whitaker".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Whitaker. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.9% confident that Whitaker is pronounced as WIH-tuh-ker, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HWIH-tuh-ker, at 27.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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