Wes

Where Wes comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Wes.

  • 1 syllable
Wes through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1963
    Peak, #627
    155 babies named Wes, its best rank.
  3. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #827.
  4. 1969
    Wes Anderson born
    American filmmaker
  5. 1979
    Wes Brown born
    English association football player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Wesley and Weston.
Namesakes
  • Wes Anderson · American filmmaker, born 1969
  • Wes Brown · English association football player, born 1979
  • Wes Studi · American actor, born 1947
  • Wes Morgan · Jamaican association football player, born 1984
  • Wes Bentley · American actor, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.