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Weldon

#2,792 in 2025Boys' name

Hill near a spring

Weldon has been given to 14,274 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #2,792 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 325 recorded.

Babies named Weldon, 2025

1 in 72,100

Weldon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Weldon: meaning, origin, and history

Hill near a spring

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Weldon means

Weldon means “hill near a spring”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,249 boys were recorded with the name Weldon between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 325 in 1920; its best national rank was #324 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,976 in 2020 to #2,792 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,585 in 2015 to #2,792 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Weldon between 1918 and 1931. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1924; its best national rank was #3,376 in 1924.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Weldon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,792
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Weldon 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 2025 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Weldon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Weldons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Weldon was born before 1939 — so the typical Weldon is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,930
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (2,887).

Is Weldon 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
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+793
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.2%
Peak was 1920 (325)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#324
1920

Spellings of Weldon

Weldon is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 21.2% against Weldon's 3.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Weldon is used

Across 1910–2025, Weldon was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 15,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

035 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,857
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 5,263
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 5,556
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 9,091
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 12,500
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 12,500
  7. 7Virginia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Weldon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Weldon around the world

Where Weldon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2002–2002
    #3,830
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Weldon

People whose public names include Weldon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Weldon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,792
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 184
Best rank ever
#324
1920
Peak year
1920
325 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,249
Count in 2025
46

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,376
1924
Peak year
1924
10 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1931
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Weldon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JordonWellsLondonLyndonJaydonBraydonJadonBrendonEldonSheldonWeltonGlendonJaedonBradonBraedonGraydonWellesJaidonKaydonGordonLindonHaydonLandonCamdon

Names with a curve like Weldon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Weldon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OdellMerlinDelmarMerrillThurmanSanfordMervinHershelCarmenKermitMaynardRolland

Sibling names for Weldon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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