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Wellington

#4,381 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly estate, through Wellington

Wellington has been given to 2,879 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,381 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Wellington, 2025

1 in 138,000

Wellington over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wellington: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly estate, through Wellington

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wellington means

Wellington belongs to the name family reached through Wellington → Wellington. Its meaning is “estate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wellington is used in Portuguese.

Wellington comes through English Wellington.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wellington.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Wellington is pronounced /ˈwɛ.lĩ.tõ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,879 boys were recorded with the name Wellington between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1922; its best national rank was #496 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,838 in 2020 to #4,381 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,537 in 2015 to #4,381 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wellington?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,381
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wellington 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wellington. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wellingtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wellington was born before 1949 — so the typical Wellington is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,427
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (414).

Is Wellington 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
−1,113
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,543
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+156
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1922 (60)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#496
1891

Spellings of Wellington

Wellington is the most-used spelling, taking 80.4% of the 3,579 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Wellington is used

Across 1910–2025, Wellington was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 215,629 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

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. Wellington has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wellington around the world

Where Wellington 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.

  • Canada
    2011–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Wellington

People whose public names include Wellington, 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.

Wellington in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Wellington. Linked forms have their own page here.

Huelinton

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Wellington by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,543
Best rank ever
#496
1891
Peak year
1922
60 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,879
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Wellington

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

WeltonCharlestonCarringtonBarringtonCreightonLivingstonWashingtonArlingtonBrightonThorntonThurstonCharltonLexingtonRemmingtonClifftonPrincestonPrincetonStrattonHarringtonEllingtonKarringtonStocktonCashtonColeton

Names with a curve like Wellington

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

GoldenFerrisEnosHendersonTillmanOswaldSilvioJudgeCrawfordGastonEstonEvans

Sibling names for Wellington

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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