Meaning not yet researched.
Wesson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 257 in 2025. Its best rank was #802 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #802 in 2021; #919 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wesson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#919 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #802.
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Wesson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 257 boys in 2025. Peak: #802 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 306 (2021).
In 2025, 257 US boys were named Wesson, making it the 919th most common boys’ name of the year, up 33 places from #952 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 241 boys named Wesson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #802, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 306. For comparison, it was #1,073 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wesson in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 5 babies. In all, 3,224 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,561 babies named Wesson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,484 US boys were named Wesson; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 306. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,646 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wesson ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #368 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Wessen and Wessyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wessen (10), Wessyn (7).
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 Wesson in the open dataset we use.
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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 9 | #368 | — |
| Tennessee | 20 | #408 | #1,041 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #460 | #476 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #522 | #685 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #566 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #590 | — |
| Ohio | 17 | #593 | #773 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #629 | #541 |
| Iowa | 5 | #659 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #667 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #760 | #564 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #821 | #887 |
| Arizona | 7 | #838 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #843 | #1,030 |
| Missouri | 6 | #865 | #656 |
| Indiana | 6 | #943 | #892 |
| Michigan | 7 | #992 | #1,073 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,151 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,271 | #1,312 |
| New York | 9 | #1,288 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,464 | #1,933 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,645 | #970 |
| California | 10 | #1,679 | #2,032 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 257 | #919 |
| 2024 | — | — | 241 | #952 |
| 2023 | — | — | 238 | #951 |
| 2022 | — | — | 251 | #922 |
| 2021 | — | — | 306 | #802 |
| 2020 | — | — | 268 | #852 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,849 | 240 | #916 |
| 2018 | — | — | 236 | #913 |
| 2017 | — | — | 242 | #892 |
| 2016 | — | — | 205 | #998 |
| 2015 | — | — | 185 | #1,073 |
| 2014 | — | — | 158 | #1,183 |
| 2013 | — | — | 103 | #1,545 |
| 2012 | — | — | 87 | #1,741 |
| 2011 | — | — | 63 | #2,122 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,233 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,892 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,134 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,595 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,443 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,409 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #13,142 |
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).