Dwight

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dwight is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Diot, a pet-form of the female personal name Dye.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 2.7K◐
  • CACanada1 in 5.6K
  • USUnited States1 in 6.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈50K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
450 ●

760K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.6K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

DwightLatin · English●730K records
드와이트Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Diot, a pet-form of the female personal name Dye.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dwight is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#56549,236662K rec.1 in 6.8K49KDwight450
GB United Kingdom#66126,46927K rec.—listedDwight102
CA Canada#62914,81915K rec.—3Dwight141
AU Australia—7,5938.5K rec.—1Dwight92
PH Philippines—6,1715.2K rec.——Dwight72
IT Italy—3,6273.8K rec.——Dwight20
JM Jamaica#371,7611.8K rec.——Dwight26
RU Russia—1,7011.7K rec.——Dwight17
SG Singapore#3691,5511.6K rec.——Dwight25
EG Egypt—1,0931.1K rec.——Dwight5
NL Netherlands—599884 rec.1 in 29K599Dwight62
PS Palestine—146464 rec.——Dwight2

Roughly 49K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 6.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English730K87%
  • Spanish31K4%
  • 11K1%
  • German5.7K1%
  • French5.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English729,86687%
Spanish30,5844%
11,0501%
German5,7441%
French5,2251%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dwight is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name3.2K records spelled Dwight22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Дуайт, Двайт, Дуаит, Дваит, Двајт

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dwight is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, usually from Diot, diminutive of Dye, pet-form of Dionisia; first attested Henry Duyhts 1327 SRDb. Sometimes a late corruption of Thwaite.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A surname transferred from the given name.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, people, long., Sarawak & Borneo

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Dyak [Dayak]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Teutonic: white fair one

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900195020002.7K · 1953

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Dwight in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188012
188121
188217
188311
188421
188530
188617
188719
188821
188916
189024
189125
189228
189324
189425
189522
189628
189725
189835
189941
190059
190137
190240
190328
190446
190535
190659
190758
190850
190943
191055
191187
1912186
1913206
1914284
1915337
1916397
1917349
1918405
1919380
1920412
1921493
1922447
1923431
1924450
1925470
1926468
1927464
1928454
1929471
1930542
1931568
1932635
1933516
1934506
1935475
1936418
1937406
1938435
1939394
1940456
1941536
1942716
19431,234
19441,504
19451,753
19461,754
19471,542
19481,650
19491,719
19501,812
19512,050
19522,407
19532,698
19542,034
19552,159
19562,369
19572,029
19581,697
19591,593
19601,720
19611,669
19621,514
19631,448
19641,256
19651,227
19661,049
1967984
1968943
19691,200
19701,026
1971906
1972773
1973715
1974700
1975673
1976602
1977573
1978489
1979546
1980517
1981515
1982492
1983536
1984571
1985502
1986509
1987549
1988487
1989488
1990493
1991466
1992410
1993360
1994361
1995303
1996266
1997244
1998255
1999243
2000215
2001186
2002162
2003177
2004195
2005152
2006161
2007165
2008142
2009168
2010142
2011138
2012136
2013133
2014129
2015103
201699
201794
201893
201977
202082
202170
202257
202361
202454
202546

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000James Dwight Dana, b. 1813Dwight Filley Davis Sr., b. 1879Dwight D. Eisenhower, b. 1890Dwight Griswold, b. 1893Dwight Frye, b. 1899Dwight Schultz, b. 1947Dwight Yoakam, b. 1956Dwight Yorke, b. 1971Dwight Howard, b. 1985Jon Jones, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Dwight
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049K#916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,707
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,513
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—599#1,449
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—350#3,956
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025133#461
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025107#47
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202599#58
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202084#916
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026202684#32
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025202548#112

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 365 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dwight?
We estimate roughly 50 thousand people bear Dwight (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Dwight have the most bearers?
We estimate about 49 thousand people bear Dwight in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dwight.
How common is Dwight compared with other names?
In the United States, Dwight is the 565th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Dwight a male or female name?
Dwight is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dwight mean?
Recorded meaning: From Diot, a pet-form of the female personal name Dye.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dwight” — the 565th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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