Welles
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #2,941 for boys in 2025, 42 births
Given to boys 97.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 470since 1915
Welles over time
Rank among boys' names. Welles 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 | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,941 | 42 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,524 | 32 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,410 | 56 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,993 | 40 |
| 2018 | — | #2,674 | 46 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,672 | 46 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,441 | 32 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,537 | 10 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
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| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Welles! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–2011, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Welles
- 583 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #2,941)
- 403 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #2,941)
- 1,949 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #2,941)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2021 at #2,410 (56 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,241 boys born in 2021 were named Welles (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,668 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.4% of all boys named Welles (237) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 10 | #3,825 (1915) | #3,903 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 223 | #2,672 (2017) | #5,526 |
| 2020s | 237 | #2,410 (2021) | #3,128 |
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.
Welles in 1915
Top boys' names in 1915
More about 1915
boys
848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 169,715 of them was named Welles, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 565 names at #3,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.