Westlyn
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 91.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 453since 2015
Westlyn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,546 | 30 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,953 | 101 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #1,863 | 109 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | — | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Westlyn! It came in at #16,419, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2015, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Westlyn is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#938 · 1 in 5,017
- North Carolina#1,242 · 1 in 7,564
- Ohio#1,271 · 1 in 8,629
- Pennsylvania#1,416 · 1 in 10,228
- Georgia#1,473 · 1 in 9,425
Best ever in a state: #938 in Indiana, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #938 | 6 | 1 in 5,017 |
| North Carolina | #1,242 | 6 | 1 in 7,564 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 8,629 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,416 | 5 | 1 in 10,228 |
| Georgia | #1,473 | 5 | 1 in 9,425 |
| Texas | #1,990 | 10 | 1 in 15,987 |
| California | #2,901 | 6 | 1 in 32,625 |
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See more about Westlyn
- 5,010 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #4,546)
- 705 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #4,546)
- 11,873 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #4,546)
- Debuted 2015
- Peaked 2017 at #1,863 (109 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,839 girls born in 2017 were named Westlyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 64.5% of all girls named Westlyn (292) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 292 | #1,863 (2017) | #5,745 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,801 (2021) | #5,510 |
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.
Westlyn in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,839 of them was named Westlyn, which outranked 89.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,854Paizley110
- #1,854Rylin110
- #1,854Tilly110
- #1,863Westlyn109
- #1,863Aiza109
- #1,863Arwen109
- #1,863Empress109
- #1,876Aoife108
- #1,876Avalee108
- #1,876Avigail108
Tied with 12 names at #1,863; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 168,269 of them was named Westlyn, which outranked 50.3% 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).
- #6,685Ziair12
- #6,685Ziyan12
- #6,685Zyonn12
- #7,095Westlyn11
- #7,095Aaban11
- #7,095Aalijah11
- #7,095Aashrith11
- #7,546Aadhi10
- #7,546Aakil10
- #7,546Aarian10
Tied with 450 names at #7,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.