Weslie
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 61.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 628since 1943
Weslie 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #2,248 | 83 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #2,789 | 61 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | #2,964 | 7 |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Weslie! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Weslie
- 78 spots since 2024 (#2,248 → #2,326)
- 2,032 spots since 2020 (#4,358 → #2,326)
- 4,395 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #2,326)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 2024 at #2,248 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,520 girls born in 2024 were named Weslie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 55.1% of all girls named Weslie (346) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2012, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,691 (1943) | #4,691 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 7 | #5,296 (1963) | #5,296 |
| 1970s | 10 | #8,775 (1974) | #9,493 |
| 1980s | 56 | #6,531 (1989) | #8,079 |
| 1990s | 40 | #7,512 (1992) | #10,077 |
| 2000s | 30 | #11,801 (2000) | #14,520 |
| 2010s | 134 | #4,653 (2019) | #8,041 |
| 2020s | 346 | #2,248 (2024) | #3,098 |
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.
Weslie in 1943
Top girls' names in 1943
Top boys' names in 1943
More about 1943
girls
1,395,293 girls got a published name in 1943; 1 in 279,059 of them was named Weslie, which outranked 12.6% of the 5,367 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 676 names at #4,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,427,297 boys got a published name in 1943; 1 in 203,900 of them was named Weslie, which outranked 26.6% of the 4,040 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).