Wesson
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #917 for boys in 2025, 257 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 306 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,219since 2004
Wesson over time
Rank among boys' names. Wesson has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | #917 | 257 | |
| 2024 | — | #950 | 241 | |
| 2023 | — | #949 | 238 | |
| 2022 | — | #921 | 251 | |
| 2021 | — | #800 | 306 | |
| 2020 | — | #850 | 268 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #915 | 240 |
| 2018 | — | #912 | 236 | |
| 2017 | — | #890 | 242 | |
| 2016 | — | #993 | 205 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,070 | 185 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,179 | 158 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,540 | 103 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,729 | 87 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,105 | 63 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,181 | 35 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wesson! It came in at #11,356, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wesson
- 33 spots since 2024 (#950 → #917)
- 67 spots since 2020 (#850 → #917)
- 153 spots since 2015 (#1,070 → #917)
- Biggest jump: 103 spots in 2017 (#993 → #890)
- Biggest drop: 121 spots in 2022 (#800 → #921)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2021 at #800 (306 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,717 boys born in 2021 were named Wesson (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,646 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 48.5% of all boys named Wesson (1,561) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 104 | #2,847 (2009) | #6,792 |
| 2010s | 1,554 | #890 (2017) | #1,451 |
| 2020s | 1,561 | #800 (2021) | #898 |
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.
Wesson in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 335,673 of them was named Wesson, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,485 names at #15,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 7,476 of them was named Wesson, which outranked 93.5% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.