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Wellesley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,227 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,227 in 1923; #10,615 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Wellesley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,615 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #4,227.
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Wellesley: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,227 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 8 (2020).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Wellesley, making it the 10,615th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #4,227, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8, in 2020. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Wellesley, making it the 14,831st most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #12,135, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8. For comparison, it was #16,304 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wellesley in 8 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 6 babies. In all, 68 US babies have been given the name, 62% of them girls and 38% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 40 babies named Wellesley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20 US boys were named Wellesley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).