Weslyn

#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 81.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2017 · 67 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
595
since 1986

Weslyn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #2,597, 2017girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,97536#8,9108
2024#4,03936#6,46913
2023#3,32948#5,25518
2022#3,53644#5,21518
2021#3,33947#8,8258
2020#3,39945#9,5547
2019#2,96255#7,64310
2018#3,05053#7,61710
2017#2,59767#6,33813
2016#3,22950#8,1469
2015#4,85328#10,6446
2014#6,45119#8,7818
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2012#13,4837
2011#11,1819
2010#11,2469
2009#17,2945#8,9858
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First appearance
1986

The first year at least five girls were named Weslyn! It came in at #9,545, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1998, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Weslyn
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 64 spots since 2024 (#4,039#3,975)
  • 576 spots since 2020 (#3,399#3,975)
  • 878 spots since 2015 (#4,853#3,975)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1986
  • Peaked 2017 at #2,597 (67 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,768
  • Highest: 1 in 25,768 girls born in 2017 were named Weslyn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 49.9% of all girls named Weslyn (297) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s6#9,545 (1986)#9,545
1990s6#12,688 (1999)#12,688
2000s30#9,671 (2003)#15,146
2010s297#2,597 (2017)#6,561
2020s256#3,329 (2023)#3,603

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.

Weslyn in 2017

girls
#2,597
67 births · 1 in 25,768 girls
boys
#6,338
13 births · 1 in 142,381 boys

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #2,597Weslyn67

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #6,338Weslyn13
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 25,768 of them was named Weslyn, which outranked 85.9% 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).

Ranked beside Weslyn
  1. #2,573Shriya68
  2. #2,573Tayler68
  3. #2,573Zoee68
  4. #2,597Weslyn67
  5. #2,597Abrianna67
  6. #2,597Adyson67
  7. #2,597Aisley67
  8. #2,635Alise66
  9. #2,635Arisbeth66
  10. #2,635Bethel66

Tied with 37 names at #2,597; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 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 142,381 of them was named Weslyn, which outranked 55.6% 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).

Ranked beside Weslyn
  1. #6,060Zoltan14
  2. #6,060Zyden14
  3. #6,060Zyree14
  4. #6,338Weslyn13
  5. #6,338Aadhvik13
  6. #6,338Abdi13
  7. #6,338Abhi13
  8. #6,685Aanav12
  9. #6,685Aaro12
  10. #6,685Abdalrahman12

Tied with 346 names at #6,338; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 497Wells#1,413#916
  2. 419Kairo#1,221#802
  3. 339Caspian#1,199#860
  4. 313Colson#1,049#736
  5. 311Kace#1,183#872
Fallers
  1. 415Riaan#861#1,276
  2. 292Chevy#980#1,272
  3. 245Kylo#904#1,149
  4. 226Braeden#993#1,219
  5. 194Kamdyn#809#1,003

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017