In 2025, 46 US boys were named Weldon, making it the 2,793rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 204 places from #2,997 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 42 boys named Weldon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #324, reached in 1932. The most boys given the name in a single year was 325, in 1920. For comparison, it was #3,586 in 2015 and #505 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Weldon in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 14,274 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,902 babies named Weldon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 423 US boys were named Weldon; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Weldon ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,750 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Wildon, Welden and Wilden are summarised on this page.