Meaning not yet researched.
Wes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 376 in 2025. Its best rank was #630 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #630 in 1963; #716 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wes in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#716 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #630.
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Wes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 376 boys in 2025. Peak: #630 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 376 (2025).
In 2025, 376 US boys were named Wes, making it the 716th most common boys’ name of the year, up 28 places from #744 in 2024. That is 30 more than the 346 boys named Wes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #630, reached in 1963. The most boys given the name in a single year was 376, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,265 in 2015 and #2,017 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wes in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 6,786 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,831 babies named Wes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,579 US boys were named Wes; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 376. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,543 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wes ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #227 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Wess, Wise and Wyse are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wess (513), Wise (141), Wyse (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wes in the open dataset we use.
Wes is listed as a nickname for Wesley, Westley, Weston.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 6 | #227 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #291 | — |
| Utah | 17 | #300 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #329 | — |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #333 | #819 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #436 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #438 | #524 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #487 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #492 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #529 | #805 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #549 | #780 |
| Washington | 13 | #574 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #599 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #605 | — |
| California | 42 | #664 | #1,012 |
| Colorado | 8 | #677 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #708 | — |
| New York | 21 | #714 | #944 |
| Arizona | 9 | #715 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #800 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #850 | #1,371 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #866 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #919 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #955 | #1,932 |
| Texas | 25 | #973 | #1,358 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,082 | #1,130 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 376 | #716 |
| 2024 | — | — | 346 | #744 |
| 2023 | — | — | 310 | #800 |
| 2022 | — | — | 315 | #801 |
| 2021 | — | — | 268 | #867 |
| 2020 | — | — | 216 | #991 |
| 2019 | — | — | 217 | #982 |
| 2018 | — | — | 191 | #1,063 |
| 2017 | — | — | 180 | #1,089 |
| 2016 | — | — | 160 | #1,193 |
| 2015 | — | — | 143 | #1,265 |
| 2014 | — | — | 122 | #1,395 |
| 2013 | — | — | 122 | #1,386 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,655 |
| 2011 | — | — | 83 | #1,769 |
| 2010 | — | — | 85 | #1,767 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,097 |
| 2008 | — | — | 75 | #1,931 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,334 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,035 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,397 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,740 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,726 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,880 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,862 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,296 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,981 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,923 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,871 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,401 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,298 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,747 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,362 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,102 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,680 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,127 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,291 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,087 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,113 |
| 1986 | — | — | 45 | #1,509 |
| 1985 | — | — | 40 | #1,613 |
| 1984 | — | — | 36 | #1,655 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,428 |
| 1982 | — | — | 44 | #1,462 |
| 1981 | — | — | 40 | #1,545 |
| 1980 | — | — | 52 | #1,312 |
| 1979 | — | — | 57 | #1,220 |
| 1978 | — | — | 53 | #1,239 |
| 1977 | — | — | 67 | #1,063 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,450 |
| 1975 | — | — | 36 | #1,503 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,266 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,374 |
| 1972 | — | — | 66 | #999 |
| 1971 | — | — | 83 | #899 |
| 1970 | — | — | 87 | #868 |
| 1969 | — | — | 83 | #845 |
| 1968 | — | — | 76 | #839 |
| 1967 | — | — | 75 | #831 |
| 1966 | — | — | 95 | #755 |
| 1965 | — | — | 100 | #744 |
| 1964 | — | — | 127 | #685 |
| 1963 | — | — | 155 | #630 |
| 1962 | — | — | 130 | #682 |
| 1961 | — | — | 131 | #678 |
| 1960 | — | — | 138 | #669 |
| 1959 | — | — | 121 | #701 |
| 1958 | — | — | 96 | #760 |
| 1957 | — | — | 69 | #918 |
| 1956 | — | — | 34 | #1,333 |
| 1955 | — | — | 38 | #1,239 |
| 1954 | — | — | 29 | #1,433 |
| 1953 | — | — | 33 | #1,329 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,580 |
| 1951 | — | — | 26 | #1,488 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #2,017 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,871 |
| 1948 | — | — | 22 | #1,609 |
| 1947 | — | — | 30 | #1,361 |
| 1946 | — | — | 21 | #1,600 |
| 1945 | — | — | 22 | #1,443 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,986 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,694 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,548 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,649 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,155 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,525 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,508 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,713 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,269 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,632 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,302 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,522 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,706 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,176 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,336 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,942 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,309 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,269 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,449 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,248 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,897 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #914 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,102 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #845 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,051 |
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).