Meaning not yet researched.
Weslyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,633 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,633 in 2017; #4,063 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Weslyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,063 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,633.
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Weslyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,633 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 67 (2017).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Weslyn, making it the 4,063rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 46 places from #4,109 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 36 girls named Weslyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,633, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #4,975 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Weslyn, making it the 9,652nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,847 places from #6,805 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 13 boys named Weslyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,429, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 18, in 2023. For comparison, it was #12,020 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Weslyn in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 731 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 353 babies named Weslyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 481 US girls were named Weslyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Weslynn (593 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Weslin, Weslan and Weslen 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Weslin (30), Weslan (22), Weslen (10).
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 Weslyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,063 | 8 | #9,652 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,109 | 13 | #6,805 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,383 | 18 | #5,453 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,591 | 18 | #5,429 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,387 | 8 | #9,646 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,445 | 7 | #10,545 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,997 | 10 | #8,176 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,103 | 10 | #8,120 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,633 | 13 | #6,649 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,275 | 9 | #8,770 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,975 | 6 | #12,020 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,698 | 8 | #9,587 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,897 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,103 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,223 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,066 | 8 | #9,823 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,426 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,710 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,400 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,545 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,354 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,878 | — | — |
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).