Westlyn
#4,657 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Westlyn has been given to 496 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #4,657 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 109 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.
Babies named Westlyn, 2025
1 in 111,000
Westlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Westlyn over time
In 2025, Westlyn went to 79% girls and 21% 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 Westlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 53,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,657
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Westlyn 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Westlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Westlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Westlyn was born before 2018 — so the typical Westlyn is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 64.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 453
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 64.5% of all recorded uses (292).
Is Westlyn 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
- +5,561
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −749
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +14,303
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 6.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.5%
- Peak was 2017 (109)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 113.3% average annual change
Spellings of Westlyn
Westlyn is not the most common spelling — Jesslyn is, with 45.3% against Westlyn's 7.8%.
Where Westlyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Westlyn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 58,880 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 33,333
- 2Ohio1 in 33,333
- 3Texas1 in 33,333
- 4Indiana1 in 50,000
- 5California1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 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.
Westlyn around the world
Where Westlyn 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.
- Canada2017–2021#2,930in 2021
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Westlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Westlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Westlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.