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Welton

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Welton has been given to 2,594 babies in the U.S. since 1893. 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 1924, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Welton, 2015

1 in 463,000

Welton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Welton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Welton means

Welton is a given name.

The naming story behind Welton

Wikidata records Welton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q95150554, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,594 boys were recorded with the name Welton between 1893 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1924; its best national rank was #837 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 Welton?

Welton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Welton 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 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Welton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Weltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Welton was born before 1940 — so the typical Welton is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
945
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1920s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (537).

Is Welton 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 1924 (67)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#837
1924

Spellings of Welton

Welton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 16.7% against Welton's 0.29%.

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 Welton is used

Across 1910–2025, Welton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 95,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Welton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Welton

People whose public names include Welton, 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.

Welton 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
—
Best rank ever
#837
1924
Peak year
1924
67 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
2,594
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Welton

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

WellingtonAlstonLeytonHustonLawtonFultonBrytonFentonWintonAustonPattonGastonWeldonWellesHestonWellsTritonDuttonMaxtonDeltonKiptonDentonBraytonWalton

Names with a curve like Welton

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

BurnellLeamonHilaryGlenwoodMalvinRudolfFurmanHarrellJonnieLenwoodNorwoodMurry

Sibling names for Welton

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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