Welby

Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265

Peak · boys
1893 · 6 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
372
since 1893

Welby over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Welby has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201928peak #907, 1893boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#9,2655
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1995#8,8685
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1993#6,2288
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1987#5,4597
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1976#4,4187
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1974#5,2275
1973#4,5056
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1971#4,9075
1970#4,7245
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1964#3,6016
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1951#3,0667
1950#2,7708
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1948#3,6685
1947#3,3706
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1945#2,7437
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1943#2,5639
1942#2,7128
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1940#3,1306
1939#2,6098
1938#2,8687
1937#2,4799
1936#3,5495
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1934#3,6795
1933#2,36810
1932#3,3616
1931#2,8648
1930#3,0228
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1928#2,27013
1927#2,9129
1926#3,3857
1925#2,58811
1924#2,82210
1923#3,8226
1922#3,5327
1921#1,98017
1920#2,76510
1919#2,15214
1918#2,26013
1917#2,56210
1916#1,84916
1915#2,8298
1914#2,4578
1913#1,67611
1912#2,5445
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First appearance
1893

The first year at least five boys were named Welby! It came in at #907, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1894–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Welby is popular in 1928

No state had 5 or more boys named Welby in 1928, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Welby
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1893
  • Peaked 1893 at #907 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1894, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1893
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,720
  • Highest: 1 in 18,720 boys born in 1893 were named Welby (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 377,028 boys born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 24.2% of all boys named Welby (90) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#907 (1893)#907
1900s10#1,058 (1901)#1,098
1910s85#1,676 (1913)#2,291
1920s90#1,980 (1921)#2,897
1930s66#2,368 (1933)#2,978
1940s41#2,563 (1943)#3,031
1950s15#2,770 (1950)#2,918
1960s6#3,601 (1964)#3,601
1970s28#4,418 (1976)#4,756
1980s7#5,459 (1987)#5,459
1990s18#6,228 (1993)#8,120

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Welby in 1928

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#2,270
13 births · 1 in 85,201 boys

Top boys' names in 1928

  1. #1Robert60,701
  2. #2John53,760
  3. #3James52,752
  4. #4William49,118
  5. #5Charles31,243
  6. #6Richard28,793
  7. #7Donald25,704
  8. #8George24,391
  9. #9Joseph22,322
  10. #10Edward18,492
  11. #2,270Welby13
More about 1928

boys

1,107,613 boys got a published name in 1928; 1 in 85,201 of them was named Welby, which outranked 51.9% of the 4,723 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Welby
  1. #2,162Yancy14
  2. #2,162Zachary14
  3. #2,162Zygmunt14
  4. #2,270Welby13
  5. #2,270Abbie13
  6. #2,270Alberta13
  7. #2,270Almer13
  8. #2,387Abran12
  9. #2,387Addie12
  10. #2,387Adolphe12

Tied with 116 names at #2,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1927
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,009Fidencio#1,959 → #950
  2. ↑ 766Hoover#1,128 → #362
  3. ↑ 700Reyes#1,692 → #992
  4. ↑ 441Arlen#1,227 → #786
  5. ↑ 392Arland#1,372 → #980
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,975Shoji#722 → #3,697
  2. ↓ 529Alvan#951 → #1,480
  3. ↓ 418Watson#964 → #1,382
  4. ↓ 412Judge#911 → #1,323
  5. ↓ 363Donato#990 → #1,353

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1928 →