Westly
#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 24 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 941since 1918
Westly over time
Rank among boys' names. Westly has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #2,162 | 24 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,732 | 8 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,529 | 9 |
| 1934 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,864 | 8 |
| 1930 | #2,781 | 9 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Westly! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Westly is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more boys named Westly in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Westly
- 608 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #5,861)
- 1,641 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #5,861)
- 1,205 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1980 at #2,162 (24 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 74,331 boys born in 1980 were named Westly (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.4% of all boys named Westly (164) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #3,728 (1918) | #3,732 |
| 1920s | 50 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,477 |
| 1930s | 52 | #2,529 (1935) | #2,961 |
| 1940s | 38 | #2,732 (1943) | #3,088 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,295 (1959) | #3,205 |
| 1960s | 52 | #2,576 (1968) | #3,027 |
| 1970s | 85 | #2,270 (1977) | #3,565 |
| 1980s | 164 | #2,162 (1980) | #3,156 |
| 1990s | 124 | #3,462 (1991) | #4,492 |
| 2000s | 94 | #4,785 (2000) | #7,706 |
| 2010s | 120 | #4,480 (2019) | #6,487 |
| 2020s | 75 | #5,562 (2021) | #6,765 |
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.
Westly in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 81,173 of them was named Westly, which outranked 70.6% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,333Yonatan24
- #2,333Zachari24
- #2,333Zain24
- #2,400Westly23
- #2,400Ankur23
- #2,400Arie23
- #2,400Armon23
- #2,468Akash22
- #2,468Anish22
- #2,468Arden22
Tied with 67 names at #2,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.