Wesly
Wesly was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,777 among boys’ names; 1,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Wesly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wesly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wesly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wesly is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wesly?
#6,777 among boys’ names, 2025
Wesly rose from #10,569 in 2015 to #6,777 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 7.6 per million.
32 babies in 2002, the peak
Wesly peaked in 2002, when 32 boys were given it, #2,935 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,777 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,262 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,484 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,768 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,314 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,684 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,081 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,090 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,791 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,766 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #10,569 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,465 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,385 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,671 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,645 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,678 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,715 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,047 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,631 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,994 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,520 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,361 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,268 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,935 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,292 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,373 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,746 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 27 | #3,012 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,152 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,006 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,916 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #3,022 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,033 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,524 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,904 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,957 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,350 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,297 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,392 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,425 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,970 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,229 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,406 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,106 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,135 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,091 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,373 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,664 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,359 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,594 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,786 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,174 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,213 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,145 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,362 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,825 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,855 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,193 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,466 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,773 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,237 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,575 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,601 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,273 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,890 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,864 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,291 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,930 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,816 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,526 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,379 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,733 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,373 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,698 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,796 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,185 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,495 | 6.0 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,986 | 5.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,204 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,649 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,475 | 9.0 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,132 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,268 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,130 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,764 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,745 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,280 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,447 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,837 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,906 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,899 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,842 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,854 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,872 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,238 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,308 | 5.4 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,660 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,789 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,581 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,067 | 9.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wesly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wesly has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wesly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wesly, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,439 Americans ever recorded as Wesly. The median Wesly alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,507 people named Wesly (51 women and girls, 1,456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 176 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 364 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Wesly?
Wesly is a less common spelling of Wesley: SSA has recorded 1,439 Wesly and 250,969 Wesley since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 254,188 babies since 1880, Wesly is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 5,759 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wesly
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 Wesly and names like it
- Compare Wesly and WesleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sWesly peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wesly since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Wesly.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Wesly alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with WMost given first.