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 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 6,956 of them was named Wesson, which outranked 93.6% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).