Welton
Welton was last recorded in 2015, when 8 babies were given it; 2,594 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Welton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Welton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,506, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1924, the peak
Welton peaked in 1924, when 67 boys were given it, #837 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,506 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,694 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,466 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,267 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,345 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,294 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,250 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,759 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,960 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,605 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #9,770 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,492 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,389 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,140 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,764 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,557 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,308 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,034 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,912 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,887 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,680 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,847 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,507 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,773 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,606 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,195 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,090 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,895 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,355 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,030 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,983 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,047 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,121 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,724 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,192 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,807 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,040 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,267 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,542 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 30 | #1,452 | 14.8 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,803 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 27 | #1,568 | 12.7 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,579 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,499 | 13.6 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,368 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,247 | 18.5 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,190 | 19.9 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,311 | 16.5 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,357 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,100 | 22.8 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,150 | 21.6 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,277 | 18.1 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,071 | 24.6 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,273 | 18.6 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,060 | 25.6 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,231 | 19.7 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,155 | 22.8 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,178 | 23.8 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,172 | 24.2 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,051 | 29.4 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,165 | 26.1 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,039 | 32.6 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,066 | 32.8 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,051 | 34.3 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,124 | 30.7 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,211 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,204 | 29.9 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,019 | 38.4 |
| 1934 | 47 | #930 | 45.5 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,093 | 37.3 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,124 | 35.4 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,030 | 41.4 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,279 | 29.2 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,008 | 42.8 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,077 | 38.8 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,097 | 38.2 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,090 | 38.7 |
| 1925 | 52 | #943 | 46.6 |
| 1924 | 67 | #837 | 59.1 |
| 1923 | 62 | #872 | 56.6 |
| 1922 | 56 | #938 | 51.5 |
| 1921 | 60 | #910 | 54.5 |
| 1920 | 65 | #845 | 61.1 |
| 1919 | 53 | #925 | 54.1 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,030 | 43.4 |
| 1917 | 51 | #898 | 55.1 |
| 1916 | 46 | #950 | 51.7 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,140 | 38.9 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,259 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 33 | #853 | 64.4 |
| 1912 | 23 | #969 | 53.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,527 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,189 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,435 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,366 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,194 | 47.7 |
| 1905 | 8 | #995 | 60.5 |
| 1904 | 9 | #872 | 70.2 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,298 | 39.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,027 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Welton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Welton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Welton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Welton, and how old are they?
An estimated 954 Americans named Welton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 51 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,005 people named Welton (12 women and girls, 993 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Welton born?
The states with the most babies named Welton are Texas, Louisiana and Virginia, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 365 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Louisiana | 141 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Virginia | 81 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 34 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Welton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Welton is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Welton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Welton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Welton and names like it
- Compare Welton and MalvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWelton peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Welton since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Welton.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Welton alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.