Wes — #742 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wes

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,408 babies named Wes between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wes currently holds the #742 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 345 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wes performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,454 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Wes shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 777 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Wes in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wes 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 6,408 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.