# Watts (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/watts/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 81 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 81 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Patronymic surname from the Middle English given name Wat, derived from Walter, equivalent to Watt + -s.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 6 | 3,248 |
| 1918 | 8 | 3,361 |
| 1951 | 5 | 4,233 |
| 2009 | 10 | 8,276 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,572 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,792 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,772 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,773 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,870 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,908 |

## People named Watts

- Watts S. Humphrey, American engineer (1927–2010)
- John Young, American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)
- Malcolm Sargent, English conductor, organist and composer (1895-1967)
- Donald Davies, British computer scientist (1924-2000)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.