Weslie
#2,353 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Weslie has been given to 1,023 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #2,353 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 83 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% girls, 39% boys all-time.
Babies named Weslie, 2025
1 in 42,500
Weslie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Weslie over time
In 2025, Weslie went to 91% girls and 9% boys.
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 Weslie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,500
- 78 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 20,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,353
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,461 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Weslie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Weslie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Weslies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Weslie was born before 2021 — so the typical Weslie is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 623
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.1% of all recorded uses (346).
Is Weslie 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
- −89
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,089
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,610
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.0%
- Peak was 2024 (83)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Weslie
Weslie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 22.9% against Weslie's 0.05%.
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 Weslie is used
Across 2016–2025, Weslie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 45,313 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 7,143
- 2Nebraska1 in 14,286
- 3Iowa1 in 16,667
- 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 5California1 in 50,000
- 6Georgia1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Weslie around the world
Where Weslie 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.
- Canada2020–2024#3,027in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Weslie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Weslie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Weslie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.