Highest ever

Westyn

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#724
371 boys
2015
#1,404
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Westyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 371 in 2025. Its best rank was #724 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Westyn in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#724 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
381
Since 1880
3,328
Years on record
32

Babies named Westyn, every year since 1880

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Boys

Westyn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 371 boys in 2025. Peak: #724 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 371 (2025).

About the name Westyn

In 2025, 371 US boys were named Westyn, making it the 724th most common boys’ name of the year, up 64 places from #788 in 2024. That is 51 more than the 320 boys named Westyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #724, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 371. For comparison, it was #1,404 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Westyn in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 3,328 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,688 babies named Westyn.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,224 US boys were named Westyn; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 371. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,604 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Westyn ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #267 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Weston (76,027 babies since 1880), Westin (7,440 babies since 1880) and Westen (1,907 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Westyn in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Westyn by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Kentucky21#267#596
West Virginia7#297—
Oklahoma15#327#700
Nebraska8#334—
Iowa10#377—
Mississippi8#412—
Indiana17#429—
Louisiana10#485—
Arkansas7#488—
Ohio22#497#903
Alabama9#569—
Michigan15#569—
Oregon6#600—
Tennessee12#635—
Washington10#681—
Illinois13#708#890
South Carolina6#738—
Texas36#777#1,359
Georgia12#790—
North Carolina11#822—
New York17#842—
Florida17#885#1,180
Pennsylvania9#908—
Missouri5#987—
Virginia6#1,084—
California12#1,504—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202510#10,068371#724
202420#6,149320#788
202320#6,155310#801
202218#6,695248#932
202120#6,162197#1,079
202015#7,547139#1,306
201921#5,974170#1,151
201815#7,745172#1,127
201711#9,895164#1,155
201622#5,975133#1,347
20156#16,306123#1,404
20149#11,884126#1,360
201310#10,963112#1,474
201211#10,390104#1,543
2011——97#1,599
20107#14,86966#2,066
2009——59#2,251
2008——51#2,513
2007——18#5,197
2006——28#3,683
2005——16#5,269
2004——14#5,796
2003——11#6,696
2002——11#6,509
2001——9#7,504
2000——8#8,176
1999——7#8,671
1998——5#11,261
1997——6#9,221
1996——8#7,111
1992——5#9,781
1989——5#9,186

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).