Welcome

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Welcome has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Welcome, 1941

1 in 487,000

Welcome over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Welcome over time

In 1941, Welcome went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19111941

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Welcome?

Welcome had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1941, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1941
1 in 487,000
5 of 2,436,399 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1941
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
337,758 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Welcome sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1941 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 337,758 children born in 1941 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Welcome. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Welcomes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Welcome was born before 1923 — so the typical Welcome is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Welcome rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (12)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,731
1911

Welcome by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,731
1911
Peak year
1915
12 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
1941
All-time count
147
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,428
1912
Peak year
1919
8 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Welcome

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