Wes
#715 for boys in 2025, 376 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,786since 1880
Wes over time
Rank among boys' names. Wes has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #715 | 376 |
| 2024 | #743 | 346 |
| 2023 | #799 | 310 |
| 2022 | #797 | 315 |
| 2021 | #866 | 268 |
| 2020 | #986 | 216 |
| 2019 | #981 | 217 |
| 2018 | #1,059 | 191 |
| 2017 | #1,086 | 180 |
| 2016 | #1,183 | 160 |
| 2015 | #1,259 | 143 |
| 2014 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2013 | #1,376 | 122 |
| 2012 | #1,637 | 94 |
| 2011 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | #1,760 | 85 |
| 2009 | #2,077 | 66 |
| 2008 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #2,010 | 66 |
| 2005 | #2,365 | 49 |
| 2004 | #2,697 | 39 |
| 2003 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,086 | 35 |
| 1989 | #2,245 | 30 |
| 1988 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #1,493 | 45 |
| 1985 | #1,594 | 40 |
| 1984 | #1,630 | 36 |
| 1983 | #1,399 | 45 |
| 1982 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #1,520 | 40 |
| 1980 | #1,291 | 52 |
| 1979 | #1,206 | 57 |
| 1978 | #1,229 | 53 |
| 1977 | #1,054 | 67 |
| 1976 | #1,427 | 39 |
| 1975 | #1,478 | 36 |
| 1974 | #1,244 | 45 |
| 1973 | #1,354 | 38 |
| 1972 | #993 | 66 |
| 1971 | #893 | 83 |
| 1970 | #861 | 87 |
| 1969 | #841 | 83 |
| 1968 | #834 | 76 |
| 1967 | #827 | 75 |
| 1966 | #755 | 95 |
| 1965 | #740 | 100 |
| 1964 | #684 | 127 |
| 1963 | #627 | 155 |
| 1962 | #678 | 130 |
| 1961 | #676 | 131 |
| 1960 | #669 | 138 |
| 1959 | #700 | 121 |
| 1958 | #755 | 96 |
| 1957 | #913 | 69 |
| 1956 | #1,317 | 34 |
| 1955 | #1,219 | 38 |
| 1954 | #1,408 | 29 |
| 1953 | #1,304 | 33 |
| 1952 | #1,547 | 24 |
| 1951 | #1,462 | 26 |
| 1950 | #1,941 | 15 |
| 1949 | #1,820 | 17 |
| 1948 | #1,559 | 22 |
| 1947 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,557 | 21 |
| 1945 | #1,406 | 22 |
| 1944 | #1,890 | 14 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | #2,491 | 9 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,050 | 12 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,529 | 9 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #2,271 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
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| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | #959 | 5 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #764 | 7 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Wes was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1883, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wes is popular in 1973
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#922 · 1 in 18,033
- Texas#1,042 · 1 in 20,942
Best ever in a state: #186 in North Dakota, 1960.
Show every state
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| California | #922 | 8 | 1 in 18,033 |
| Texas | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 20,942 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Wes
- 28 spots since 2024 (#743 → #715)
- 271 spots since 2020 (#986 → #715)
- 544 spots since 2015 (#1,259 → #715)
- Biggest jump: 404 spots in 1957 (#1,317 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 361 spots in 1973 (#993 → #1,354)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1963 at #627 (155 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1957–1972
- Highest: 1 in 4,543 boys born in 2025 were named Wes (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #627 in 1963, was only 1 in 13,104 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.0% of all boys named Wes (1,831) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | #764 (1884) | #863 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 19 | #2,271 (1914) | #2,545 |
| 1920s | 39 | #3,708 (1926) | #3,954 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,050 (1939) | #2,990 |
| 1940s | 160 | #1,336 (1947) | #1,879 |
| 1950s | 485 | #700 (1959) | #1,257 |
| 1960s | 1,110 | #627 (1963) | #733 |
| 1970s | 571 | #861 (1970) | #1,174 |
| 1980s | 392 | #1,291 (1980) | #1,671 |
| 1990s | 228 | #2,086 (1990) | #3,144 |
| 2000s | 480 | #1,916 (2008) | #2,488 |
| 2010s | 1,397 | #981 (2019) | #1,349 |
| 2020s | 1,831 | #715 (2025) | #818 |
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.
Wes in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 41,015 of them was named Wes, which outranked 77.0% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,329Tobey39
- #1,329Vladimir39
- #1,329Wally39
- #1,354Wes38
- #1,354Abe38
- #1,354Alva38
- #1,354Antonino38
- #1,376Amado37
- #1,376Carleton37
- #1,376Cleavon37
Tied with 21 names at #1,354; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.