Meaning not yet researched.
Wesley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,578 in 2025. Its best rank was #52 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Wesley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#52 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Wesley: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,578 boys in 2025. Peak: #52 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 5,578 (2025).
In 2025, 5,578 US boys were named Wesley, making it the 52nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 6 places from #58 in 2024. That is 416 more than the 5,162 boys named Wesley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #52, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,578. For comparison, it was #126 in 2015 and #165 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wesley in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 123 babies with the name. In all, 250,969 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 31,639 babies named Wesley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42,283 US boys were named Wesley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5,578. In 2025 that was about 1 in 306 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wesley ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #6 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 50 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Weslee (1,516 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wesly, Weslie and Wessley are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Wes.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wesly (1,439), Weslie (1,023), Wessley (264), Wesli (22), Wezley (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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 46 | #6 | #80 |
| New Hampshire | 57 | #9 | #94 |
| Wyoming | 16 | #12 | #95 |
| Utah | 154 | #13 | #93 |
| Wisconsin | 172 | #14 | #105 |
| Minnesota | 155 | #16 | #83 |
| Nebraska | 60 | #17 | #113 |
| North Dakota | 29 | #18 | #99 |
| Idaho | 59 | #19 | #115 |
| Rhode Island | 26 | #20 | #116 |
| Michigan | 218 | #21 | #101 |
| Massachusetts | 179 | #23 | #79 |
| Vermont | 14 | #24 | #61 |
| Colorado | 150 | #26 | #95 |
| Montana | 29 | #26 | #159 |
| Ohio | 258 | #31 | #111 |
| Iowa | 73 | #31 | #112 |
| Washington | 160 | #33 | #79 |
| Oregon | 76 | #36 | #49 |
| Missouri | 141 | #36 | #100 |
| Delaware | 20 | #38 | #204 |
| Indiana | 140 | #39 | #139 |
| West Virginia | 33 | #43 | #82 |
| Virginia | 153 | #47 | #99 |
| Pennsylvania | 235 | #47 | #152 |
| Kansas | 65 | #47 | #126 |
| Louisiana | 71 | #49 | #114 |
| North Carolina | 195 | #51 | #128 |
| South Carolina | 83 | #51 | #122 |
| District of Columbia | 15 | #54 | #213 |
| South Dakota | 19 | #56 | #80 |
| Connecticut | 58 | #59 | #135 |
| Maryland | 91 | #60 | #106 |
| Kentucky | 72 | #61 | #122 |
| Arkansas | 48 | #61 | #153 |
| Illinois | 163 | #63 | #124 |
| New York | 249 | #66 | #155 |
| Tennessee | 123 | #69 | #127 |
| Mississippi | 36 | #69 | #136 |
| Oklahoma | 54 | #77 | #163 |
| Arizona | 99 | #78 | #172 |
| Hawaii | 12 | #78 | — |
| Georgia | 140 | #78 | #141 |
| Nevada | 37 | #81 | #187 |
| Alaska | 10 | #83 | #93 |
| Florida | 250 | #83 | #180 |
| Alabama | 61 | #83 | #156 |
| New Jersey | 113 | #83 | #174 |
| California | 434 | #90 | #169 |
| Texas | 409 | #98 | #190 |
| New Mexico | 18 | #114 | #313 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,926 | 5,578 | #52 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,201 | 5,162 | #58 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,791 | 4,555 | #70 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,647 | 4,668 | #70 |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,583 | 4,216 | #85 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,976 | 3,706 | #98 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,679 | 3,764 | #99 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,236 | 3,628 | #105 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,813 | 3,577 | #111 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,736 | 3,429 | #117 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,591 | 3,233 | #126 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,544 | 3,143 | #130 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,139 | 2,837 | #139 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,107 | 2,649 | #155 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,460 | 2,476 | #156 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,171 | 2,431 | #159 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,219 | 2,211 | #176 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,731 | 2,067 | #194 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,472 | 2,064 | #195 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,372 | 2,103 | #190 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,480 | 2,113 | #189 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,986 | 2,108 | #184 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,415 | 2,123 | #184 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,383 | 2,051 | #183 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,060 | 2,028 | #184 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,473 | 2,216 | #171 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,965 | 2,207 | #168 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,792 | 2,242 | #153 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,812 | 2,358 | #144 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,898 | 2,616 | #137 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,843 | 2,798 | #129 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,444 | 3,031 | #118 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,321 | 3,172 | #113 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,430 | 3,239 | #111 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,840 | 3,267 | #106 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,599 | 3,316 | #107 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,167 | 3,457 | #98 |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,050 | 3,478 | #93 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,126 | 3,244 | #92 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,024 | 3,043 | #96 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,202 | 3,043 | #94 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,049 | 2,799 | #101 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,397 | 2,788 | #101 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,149 | 3,031 | #98 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,845 | 3,040 | #99 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,305 | 3,165 | #95 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,429 | 3,237 | #89 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,570 | 3,306 | #83 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,779 | 4,302 | #66 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,185 | 2,147 | #119 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,256 | 1,531 | #158 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,106 | 1,467 | #165 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,631 | 1,554 | #158 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,973 | 1,690 | #154 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,265 | 1,959 | #151 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,204 | 2,059 | #152 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,314 | 1,861 | #157 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,167 | 1,642 | #165 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,479 | 1,587 | #168 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,485 | 1,803 | #157 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,487 | 1,860 | #160 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,511 | 1,969 | #162 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,958 | 2,100 | #157 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,740 | 1,963 | #162 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,603 | 2,002 | #163 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,434 | 2,020 | #164 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,102 | 2,000 | #160 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,515 | 1,954 | #160 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,725 | 1,993 | #160 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,488 | 2,004 | #157 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,062 | 1,925 | #151 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,321 | 1,844 | #155 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,593 | 1,733 | #159 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,369 | 1,594 | #166 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,690 | 1,500 | #171 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,729 | 1,527 | #165 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,618 | 1,406 | #166 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,326 | 1,336 | #169 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,236 | 1,459 | #163 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,736 | 1,248 | #167 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,740 | 1,107 | #163 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,679 | 1,169 | #159 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,350 | 1,267 | #155 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,045 | 1,253 | #155 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,094 | 1,091 | #158 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,105 | 1,129 | #152 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,139 | 1,113 | #146 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,331 | 1,074 | #150 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,193 | 1,065 | #146 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,519 | 1,061 | #145 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,435 | 1,040 | #148 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,285 | 1,118 | #142 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,740 | 1,030 | #147 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,642 | 1,135 | #144 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,200 | 1,115 | #143 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,301 | 1,186 | #142 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,133 | 1,182 | #143 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,280 | 1,181 | #143 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,863 | 1,324 | #134 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,262 | 1,320 | #132 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,933 | 1,265 | #135 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,380 | 1,347 | #131 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,911 | 1,379 | #125 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,371 | 1,287 | #127 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,659 | 1,332 | #127 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,892 | 1,244 | #129 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,445 | 1,099 | #135 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,202 | 1,145 | #137 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,337 | 1,014 | #136 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,910 | 1,026 | #135 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,423 | 990 | #133 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,174 | 789 | #132 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,324 | 585 | #133 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,967 | 485 | #134 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,857 | 261 | #131 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,132 | 209 | #152 |
| 1909 | — | — | 197 | #136 |
| 1908 | — | — | 185 | #135 |
| 1907 | — | — | 191 | #125 |
| 1906 | — | — | 155 | #135 |
| 1905 | — | — | 174 | #123 |
| 1904 | — | — | 166 | #128 |
| 1903 | — | — | 153 | #126 |
| 1902 | — | — | 145 | #133 |
| 1901 | — | — | 146 | #116 |
| 1900 | — | — | 181 | #128 |
| 1899 | — | — | 119 | #136 |
| 1898 | — | — | 151 | #124 |
| 1897 | — | — | 121 | #136 |
| 1896 | — | — | 145 | #122 |
| 1895 | — | — | 156 | #112 |
| 1894 | — | — | 149 | #113 |
| 1893 | — | — | 136 | #119 |
| 1892 | — | — | 142 | #120 |
| 1891 | — | — | 115 | #120 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,529 | 131 | #117 |
| 1889 | — | — | 101 | #147 |
| 1888 | — | — | 147 | #113 |
| 1887 | — | — | 115 | #116 |
| 1886 | — | — | 121 | #121 |
| 1885 | — | — | 108 | #128 |
| 1884 | — | — | 120 | #121 |
| 1883 | — | — | 104 | #122 |
| 1882 | — | — | 145 | #102 |
| 1881 | — | — | 102 | #119 |
| 1880 | — | — | 123 | #109 |
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).