Westyn

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #723 for boys in 2025, 371 births
Given to boys 93.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2025 · 371 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,113
since 1989

Westyn over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #5,796, 2016girlsboysat 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#9,45710#723371
2024#5,96220#785320
2023#5,96020#799310
2022#6,46418#929248
2021#5,95520#1,076197
2020#7,21215#1,297139
2019#5,79821#1,144170
2018#7,40915#1,122172
2017#9,34111#1,153164
2016#5,79622#1,339133
2015#14,4826#1,396123
2014#10,9559#1,355126
2013#10,23510#1,468112
2012#9,71111#1,535104
2011#1,58797
2010#13,4487#2,05766
2009#2,23159
2008#2,46751
2007#4,99618
2006#3,60228
2005#5,03416
2004#5,49214
2003#6,25811
2002#6,08811
2001#6,9359
2000#7,4168
1999#7,8747
1998#9,6315
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five boys were named Westyn! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Westyn
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 62 spots since 2024 (#785#723)
  • 574 spots since 2020 (#1,297#723)
  • 673 spots since 2015 (#1,396#723)
  • Biggest jump: 147 spots in 2022 (#1,076#929)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2025 at #723 (371 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,604
  • Highest: 1 in 4,604 boys born in 2025 were named Westyn (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 50.9% of all boys named Westyn (1,585) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#7,905 (1989)#7,905
1990s31#6,496 (1996)#8,109
2000s225#2,231 (2009)#5,052
2010s1,267#1,122 (2018)#1,416
2020s1,585#723 (2025)#935

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.

Westyn in 1989

boys
#7,905
5 births · 1 in 400,186 boys

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #7,905Westyn5
More about 1989

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Westyn, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Westyn
  1. #6,941Zeric6
  2. #6,941Zishan6
  3. #6,941Zuriel6
  4. #7,905Westyn5
  5. #7,905Aakeem5
  6. #7,905Aaric5
  7. #7,905Aaronmichael5

Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

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

See the top 100 for 1989