Wesly
#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 30 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,439since 1915
Wesly over time
Rank among boys' names. Wesly has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #2,467 | 29 |
| 1991 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #1,916 | 30 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #2,086 | 25 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1961 | #2,706 | 10 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #2,356 | 11 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,743 | 7 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #2,491 | 9 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,326 | 10 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | #2,317 | 12 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,511 | 11 |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #2,829 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wesly! It came in at #2,829, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wesly is popular in 1952
No state had 5 or more boys named Wesly in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wesly
- 4,492 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #6,446)
- 1,621 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #6,446)
- 3,122 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1985 at #1,916 (30 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 60,672 boys born in 2002 were named Wesly (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,916 in 1985, was only 1 in 61,607 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.3% of all boys named Wesly (249) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 29 | #2,511 (1919) | #3,375 |
| 1920s | 74 | #2,317 (1929) | #3,248 |
| 1930s | 47 | #2,326 (1938) | #3,194 |
| 1940s | 48 | #2,356 (1947) | #2,801 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,200 (1959) | #3,055 |
| 1960s | 100 | #2,109 (1968) | #2,842 |
| 1970s | 127 | #2,270 (1977) | #3,129 |
| 1980s | 244 | #1,916 (1985) | #2,277 |
| 1990s | 222 | #2,467 (1992) | #3,217 |
| 2000s | 249 | #2,882 (2002) | #3,805 |
| 2010s | 160 | #4,509 (2011) | #5,889 |
| 2020s | 64 | #6,032 (2021) | #7,782 |
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.
Wesly in 1952
Top boys' names in 1952
More about 1952
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1,943,633 boys got a published name in 1952; 1 in 161,969 of them was named Wesly, which outranked 47.1% of the 4,257 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,153Williard13
- #2,153Yvonne13
- #2,153Zeno13
- #2,251Wesly12
- #2,251Ahmed12
- #2,251Alois12
- #2,251Andra12
- #2,376Adrien11
- #2,376Alvan11
- #2,376Andreas11
Tied with 124 names at #2,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.