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Wesson

#919 in 2025Boys' name

Wes with the suffix -son

Wesson has been given to 3,224 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #919 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 306 recorded.

Babies named Wesson, 2025

1 in 12,900

Wesson over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wesson: meaning, origin, and history

Wes with the suffix -son

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wesson means

Wesson is formed from Wes with the suffix -son.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A patronymic surname from Wes + -son, literally son of Wes, the latter a diminutive of the male given name Wesley.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Wesson (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Wesson is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wes and Wesley.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Wesson is pronounced /ˈwɛsən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,219 boys were recorded with the name Wesson between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 306 in 2021; its best national rank was #802 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #852 in 2020 to #919 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,073 in 2015 to #919 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Wesson between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #17,843 in 2019.

How common is Wesson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,900
257 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,650
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#919
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,942 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wesson 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,942 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wesson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wessons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wesson was born before 2019 — so the typical Wesson is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,219
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (1,561).

Is Wesson 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
+33
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−67
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+154
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.0%
Peak was 2021 (306)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#802
2021

Spellings of Wesson

Wesson is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 27.1% against Wesson's 1.1%.

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 Wesson is used

Across 2016–2025, Wesson was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,041 boys, against 1 in 7,052 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

249 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,041
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 3,030
  3. 3Alabama1 in 3,125
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 3,125
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 3,448
  6. 6Iowa1 in 3,571
  7. 7Indiana1 in 3,571
  8. 8Ohio1 in 3,571

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.

Geographically, Wesson is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 61% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Wesson around the world

Where Wesson 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.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    2004–2025
    #5,419
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2023
    #1,526
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wesson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#919
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 67
Best rank ever
#802
2021
Peak year
2021
306 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,219
Count in 2025
257

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,843
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wesson

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

WestynWestenWestinWesleeWestlyJensonVinsonGersonWeslyMaisonWestMaysonKolsonGibsonHansonJaisonWestleyLarsonCaysonWatsonBraysonPaysonKaisonKelson

Names with a curve like Wesson

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

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Sibling names for Wesson

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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