Wei — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wei

The Social Security Administration has registered 283 babies named Wei between 1970 and 2017, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wei currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Wei is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 79 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wei performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Wei shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 101 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Wei in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wei in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 283 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.