Westley
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #619 for boys in 2025, 453 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 271 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,119since 1887
Westley over time
Rank among boys' names. Westley has never cracked the top 500 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #619 | 453 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #656 | 419 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #679 | 400 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #718 | 367 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #750 | 340 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #746 | 325 |
| 2019 | — | #793 | 291 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #786 | 291 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #843 | 262 |
| 2016 | — | #903 | 239 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,016 | 200 |
| 2014 | — | #1,097 | 174 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,035 | 186 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,258 | 140 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,425 | 116 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,503 | 108 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,518 | 109 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,532 | 105 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,700 | 89 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,724 | 81 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,691 | 79 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,880 | 65 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,749 | 69 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,433 | 90 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,912 | 57 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,725 | 65 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,342 | 89 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,301 | 91 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,386 | 79 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,347 | 80 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,081 | 109 | |
| 1994 | — | #963 | 131 | |
| 1993 | — | #958 | 126 | |
| 1992 | — | #871 | 147 | |
| 1991 | — | #841 | 152 | |
| 1990 | — | #732 | 194 | |
| 1989 | — | #657 | 231 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #560 | 271 |
| 1987 | — | #635 | 208 | |
| 1986 | — | #747 | 148 | |
| 1985 | — | #939 | 94 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,000 | 79 | |
| 1983 | — | #967 | 83 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,039 | 76 | |
| 1981 | — | #906 | 97 | |
| 1980 | — | #982 | 84 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,070 | 69 | |
| 1978 | — | #836 | 105 | |
| 1977 | — | #786 | 118 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,030 | 65 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,170 | 52 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,124 | 53 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,123 | 53 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,307 | 41 | |
| 1971 | — | #998 | 66 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,051 | 60 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,168 | 45 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,017 | 53 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,364 | 31 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,116 | 44 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,386 | 31 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,263 | 38 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,485 | 28 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,215 | 41 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,250 | 40 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,434 | 31 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,387 | 32 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,677 | 22 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,234 | 40 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,140 | 44 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,114 | 44 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,200 | 39 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,304 | 33 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,378 | 30 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,295 | 32 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,395 | 27 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,348 | 29 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,015 | 48 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,336 | 30 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,475 | 23 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,327 | 25 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,525 | 20 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,308 | 28 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,316 | 28 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,485 | 21 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,433 | 22 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,489 | 20 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,613 | 18 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,481 | 21 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,184 | 11 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,422 | 23 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,644 | 18 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,286 | 28 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,693 | 18 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,399 | 27 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,372 | 29 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,466 | 25 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,279 | 32 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,414 | 28 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,235 | 34 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,591 | 23 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,475 | 26 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,642 | 22 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,159 | 36 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,499 | 24 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,755 | 18 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,594 | 20 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,454 | 22 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,545 | 16 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,268 | 14 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,290 | 8 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,118 | 9 | |
| 1909 | — | #840 | 12 | |
| 1908 | — | #877 | 10 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #1,111 | 6 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,002 | 7 | |
| 1904 | — | #874 | 8 | |
| 1903 | — | #846 | 8 | |
| 1902 | — | #862 | 8 | |
| 1901 | — | #1,058 | 5 | |
| 1900 | — | #699 | 13 | |
| 1899 | — | #714 | 9 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #722 | 10 | |
| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #836 | 7 | |
| 1892 | — | #792 | 8 | |
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Westley! It came in at #921, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1887–1891, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Westley
- 37 spots since 2024 (#656 → #619)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#746 → #619)
- 397 spots since 2015 (#1,016 → #619)
- Biggest jump: 357 spots in 1896 (#1,079 → #722)
- Biggest drop: 359 spots in 1901 (#699 → #1,058)
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 1988 at #560 (271 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1983–1994
- Highest: 1 in 3,771 boys born in 2025 were named Westley (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #560 in 1988, was only 1 in 7,064 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all boys named Westley (2,304) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #921 (1887) | #921 |
| 1890s | 39 | #714 (1899) | #829 |
| 1900s | 77 | #699 (1900) | #908 |
| 1910s | 177 | #1,118 (1910) | #1,449 |
| 1920s | 251 | #1,235 (1923) | #1,537 |
| 1930s | 200 | #1,286 (1932) | #1,599 |
| 1940s | 274 | #1,015 (1948) | #1,357 |
| 1950s | 343 | #1,114 (1955) | #1,312 |
| 1960s | 382 | #1,017 (1968) | #1,270 |
| 1970s | 682 | #786 (1977) | #1,050 |
| 1980s | 1,371 | #560 (1988) | #843 |
| 1990s | 1,198 | #732 (1990) | #1,082 |
| 2000s | 809 | #1,433 (2002) | #1,686 |
| 2010s | 2,007 | #786 (2018) | #1,066 |
| 2020s | 2,304 | #619 (2025) | #695 |
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.
Westley in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 356,171 of them was named Westley, which outranked 15.0% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 7,064 of them was named Westley, which outranked 93.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).