Wessley
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wessley has been given to 264 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 1978, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Wessley, 2022
1 in 484,000
Wessley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Wessley?
Wessley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 249,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,262 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wessley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wessley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wessleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wessley was born before 1990 — so the typical Wessley is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 249
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Wessley 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 1978 (11)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.2% average annual change
Spellings of Wessley
Wessley is not the most common spelling — Wesley is, with 92.4% against Wessley's 0.10%.
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.
Wessley around the world
Where Wessley 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.
- France1979–1979#2,364in 1979
- South Australia1972–1973#454in 1973
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.
Wessley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wessley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wessley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.