Weslyn

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Peak · girls
2017 · 67 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
595
since 1986

Weslyn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19801990200020102020peak #2,597, 2017peak #5,215, 2022girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,97536#8,9108
2024#4,03936#6,46913
2023#3,32948#5,25518
2022#3,53644#5,21518
2021#3,33947#8,8258
2020#3,39945#9,5547
2019#2,96255#7,64310
2018#3,05053#7,61710
2017#2,59767#6,33813
2016#3,22950#8,1469
2015#4,85328#10,6446
2014#6,45119#8,7818
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2009#17,2945#8,9858
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Weslyn! It came in at #9,545, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1998, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Weslyn is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Weslyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Weslyn
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 64 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #3,975)
  • 576 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #3,975)
  • 878 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #3,975)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 2017 at #2,597 (67 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,768
  • Highest: 1 in 25,768 girls born in 2017 were named Weslyn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 49.9% of all girls named Weslyn (297) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s6#9,545 (1986)#9,545
1990s6#12,688 (1999)#12,688
2000s30#9,671 (2003)#15,146
2010s297#2,597 (2017)#6,561
2020s256#3,329 (2023)#3,603

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

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