Dwight
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning white or blond; from Wit or Withe.
Dwight by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Dwight. In the US, 92 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 2,697 babies in 1953, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dwight. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Delightjoy, pleasure; a virtue name12 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean white
Like Dwight, each of these has white in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Blakedark or pale3,782 in the US (2017)
- Finnfair or white706 in England and Wales (2025)
- Blakelydark or pale meadow; a place name used as personal name1,244 in the US (2017)
- Arjunbright; shining; white136 in England and Wales (2025)
- Albadawn; white472 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Dwight
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