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Wesly

#6,777 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Wesly has been given to 1,439 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #6,777 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Wesly, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wesly: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wesly means

Wesly is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Wesly is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,439 boys were recorded with the name Wesly between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,970 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,684 in 2020 to #6,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,569 in 2015 to #6,777 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 Wesly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,777
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wesly 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wesly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Weslys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wesly was born before 1989 — so the typical Wesly is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,241
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Choose a decade

2000s — 17.3% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Wesly 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
+5,485
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,907
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,792
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.6%
Peak was 2002 (32)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,970
1985

Spellings of Wesly

Wesly is not the most common spelling — Wesley is, with 63.3% against Wesly's 0.37%.

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 Wesly is used

Across 1910–2025, Wesly was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 667,691 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Wesly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wesly around the world

Where Wesly 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
    2000–2018
    #4,605
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1992–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2005–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Wesly by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,907
Best rank ever
#1,970
1985
Peak year
2002
32 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,439
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Wesly

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

WesleeWestenWestlyWesamWestynWessonWestWessWeslieWestinWesWeslynWestleyWestleeLeslyWessleyWeslinWestonWestynnWeslanWestlynSlyWestanWeslen

Sibling names for Wesly

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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