Wesson
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #917 for boys in 2025, 257 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 306 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,219since 2004
Wesson over time
Rank among boys' names. Wesson has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #917 | 257 | |
| 2024 | — | #950 | 241 | |
| 2023 | — | #949 | 238 | |
| 2022 | — | #921 | 251 | |
| 2021 | — | #800 | 306 | |
| 2020 | — | #850 | 268 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #915 | 240 |
| 2018 | — | #912 | 236 | |
| 2017 | — | #890 | 242 | |
| 2016 | — | #993 | 205 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,070 | 185 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,179 | 158 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,540 | 103 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,729 | 87 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,105 | 63 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,181 | 35 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wesson! It came in at #11,356, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Wesson is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#788 · 1 in 4,836
- Michigan#1,021 · 1 in 9,528
- Pennsylvania#1,172 · 1 in 12,046
- Texas#2,012 · 1 in 29,607
Best ever in a state: #189 in Montana, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #788 | 5 | 1 in 4,836 |
| Michigan | #1,021 | 5 | 1 in 9,528 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 12,046 |
| Texas | #2,012 | 6 | 1 in 29,607 |
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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 Wesson
- 33 spots since 2024 (#950 → #917)
- 67 spots since 2020 (#850 → #917)
- 153 spots since 2015 (#1,070 → #917)
- Biggest jump: 103 spots in 2017 (#993 → #890)
- Biggest drop: 121 spots in 2022 (#800 → #921)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2021 at #800 (306 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,717 boys born in 2021 were named Wesson (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,646 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 48.5% of all boys named Wesson (1,561) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 104 | #2,847 (2009) | #6,792 |
| 2010s | 1,554 | #890 (2017) | #1,451 |
| 2020s | 1,561 | #800 (2021) | #898 |
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.
Wesson in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 21,804 of them was named Wesson, which outranked 87.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,711Oswaldo88
- #1,711Rayshawn88
- #1,711Tavin88
- #1,729Wesson87
- #1,729Benedict87
- #1,729Chayton87
- #1,729Coleton87
- #1,742Abhinav86
- #1,742Aj86
- #1,742Cartier86
Tied with 12 names at #1,729; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.