Whitney

girls:

97.2k births since 1936

#379 (93rd percentile)

boys:

6k births since 1884

#1527 (67th percentile)

overall:

103.2k births since 1884

#667 (91st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Whitney".

1884 2023 18842023

Key Statistics

Total Births
97,184
Peak Births
9,537
Peak Year
1986
First Recorded
1936
Peak Percentile
96.2%
Current Percentile
26.7%
Peak Rank
#32
Current Rank
#694
Female statistics
Total Births
5,966
Peak Births
245
Peak Year
1986
First Recorded
1884
Peak Percentile
31.4%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#200
Current Rank
#900
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Whitney

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Whitney. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 85.7% confident that Whitney is pronounced as WIHT-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is HWIHT-nee, at 14.3% confidence.

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HWIHT-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
14.3% confidence
HH W IH1 T N IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Whitney. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Whitney, please vote using the thumbs up button.

WIH-nee (2 syllables)
6 names 26.6k births
W IH1 N IY0
wehn-dee (2 syllables)
5 names 18.1k births
W EH0 N D IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like W IH1 T N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.