Westen
#1,235 for boys in 2025, 162 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 162 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,907since 1980
Westen over time
Rank among boys' names. Westen 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,235 | 162 |
| 2024 | #1,397 | 134 |
| 2023 | #1,508 | 117 |
| 2022 | #1,468 | 123 |
| 2021 | #1,442 | 125 |
| 2020 | #1,833 | 81 |
| 2019 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | #1,883 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #1,636 | 93 |
| 2012 | #1,756 | 85 |
| 2011 | #2,105 | 63 |
| 2010 | #1,986 | 69 |
| 2009 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
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| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Westen! It came in at #6,250, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Westen is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,074 · 1 in 9,727
- Illinois#1,180 · 1 in 10,322
- Florida#1,362 · 1 in 13,810
Best ever in a state: #522 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 9,727 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 10,322 |
| Florida | #1,362 | 7 | 1 in 13,810 |
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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 Westen
- 162 spots since 2024 (#1,397 → #1,235)
- 598 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #1,235)
- 635 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #1,235)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2025 at #1,235 (162 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,544 boys born in 2025 were named Westen (0.01%)
- 39.3% of all boys named Westen (749) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 45 | #5,561 (1984) | #6,169 |
| 1990s | 105 | #3,693 (1995) | #5,604 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,401 (2009) | #3,832 |
| 2010s | 749 | #1,636 (2013) | #1,931 |
| 2020s | 742 | #1,235 (2025) | #1,481 |
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.
Westen in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 24,038 of them was named Westen, which outranked 86.8% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,871Selim78
- #1,871Shiv78
- #1,871Zyan78
- #1,883Westen77
- #1,883Akram77
- #1,883Braedyn77
- #1,883Bryden77
- #1,897Amen76
- #1,897Caesar76
- #1,897Darion76
Tied with 13 names at #1,883; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.