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Baby name
Dwight
Boy
Origin of the name
Dwight was first an English surname of uncertain origin. President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it famous.
Classic name
78,587births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 122rank at its peak, in 1953
Where babies named Dwight are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Dwight is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Dwight is most common in North Dakota (2.5 times), North Carolina (2.1) and Kansas (2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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