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Dewight

About 528 American babies have been named Dewight since 1930, most of them around 1976. It has not appeared in the national data since 2016. About 430 Dewights are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Dewight

By the numbers

Total US births
528
Estimated living today
430
Median age today
50
Peak year
1976
Best rank
2,329th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1930

How old the living Dewights are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 528 babies given the name since 1930, about 430 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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.

Names of 1976

The most popular boys’ names the year Dewight peaked:

All the names of 1976

Related names

Dewight 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.