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Whitney

Whitney means "Old English place name, white island" and comes from Old English, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1980s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

Old EnglishOld English place name – "white island"
EtymologyAlso read as "white water"
Births by decade
1900s
59
1910s
334
1920s
434
1930s
357
1940s
511
1950s
628
1960s
2,934
1970s
5,835
1980s
45,999
1990s
33,187
2000s
7,327
2010s
3,788
Peaked in the 1980s · 101,393 total U.S. births since 1900