Weslie is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wesley, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Weslie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,264 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,264 in 2024; #2,353 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Weslie in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,353 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,264.
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Weslie: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,264 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 83 (2024).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Weslie, making it the 2,353rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 89 places from #2,264 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 83 girls named Weslie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,264, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #6,966 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Weslie, making it the 9,650th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4,508 places from #14,158 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 boys named Weslie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,700, reached in 1927. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 1978. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Weslie in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 1,023 US babies have been given the name, 61% of them girls and 39% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 375 babies named Weslie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 433 US girls were named Weslie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Weslie ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,769 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wesley (250,969 babies since 1880) and Weslee (1,516 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Weslie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,769 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,198 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,501 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,353 | 8 | #9,650 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,264 | 5 | #14,158 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,822 | 10 | #8,222 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,444 | 6 | #11,937 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,394 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,791 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,607 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,966 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,464 | 7 | #10,652 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,911 | — | — |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #14,127 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,653 | — | — |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #12,142 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,393 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,425 | — | — |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,547 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,788 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,879 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,107 | 5 | #12,062 |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,004 | — | — |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,967 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,910 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,544 | 6 | #8,766 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,729 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,050 | 7 | #7,385 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,100 | 5 | #9,602 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,948 | 5 | #9,185 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,363 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,798 | 9 | #4,948 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,503 | 9 | #4,836 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,654 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,129 | — | — |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,576 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,241 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,398 | 6 | #6,219 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,933 | 6 | #6,038 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,609 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,479 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,225 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,364 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,396 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,524 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,575 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,883 | 10 | #2,848 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,050 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #4,028 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,978 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,981 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,929 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,195 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,842 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,166 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,890 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,351 | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #4,018 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,509 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,841 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,529 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,707 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,700 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,177 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,857 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,206 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,964 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,150 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,789 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,250 |
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).