Dwight
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Diot, a pet-form of the female personal name Dye
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dwajt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dwight is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 54th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 500 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Dwight counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Dwight | 15 |
| US United States | #567 | 49,320 | 1 in 6.7K | 49K | Dwight | 500 |
| GB United Kingdom | #698 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Dwight | 136 |
| CA Canada | #595 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 3 | Dwight | 188 |
| KP North Korea | #516 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Dwight | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | #54 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Dwight | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | #454 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Dwight | 29 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Dwight Danab. 1813USAmerican mineralogist, scientist and zoologist (1813-1895)
- Dwight Filley Davis Sr.b. 1879USAmerican politician and tennis player (1879–1945)
- Dwight D. Eisenhowerb. 1890USpresident of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)
- Dwight Griswoldb. 1893USAmerican politician (1893-1954)
- Dwight Fryeb. 1899USactor (1899-1943)
- Dwight Schultzb. 1947USAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Dwight Yoakamb. 1956USAmerican country singer-songwriter, actor, and film director
- Dwight Yorkeb. 1971TTTrinidad and Tobago association football player
- Dwight Howardb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- Jon Jonesb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 28 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dwight mean, and where does it come from?
- From Diot, a pet-form of the female personal name Dye. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- 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.
- How common is the name Dwight?
- In the United States, the national register counted 49,320 people named Dwight in 2020, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Dwight compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Dwight is the 54th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Dwight?
- A machine transcription gives /dwajt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dwight have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 299 thousand people named Dwight in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dwight.
What do you want to know about Dwight?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dwightThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 54th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.