Wesson
Wesson was given to 257 boys in 2025, #919 among boys’ names; 3,224 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Wesson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wesson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wesson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wesson is “a male given name.”
A patronymic surname from Wes + -son, literally son of Wes, the latter a diminutive of the male given name Wesley.
/ˈwɛsən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wesson?
#919 among boys’ names, 2025
Wesson rose from #1,073 in 2015 to #919 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.15 per 1,000.
306 babies in 2021, the peak
Wesson peaked in 2021, when 306 boys were given it, #802 among boys’ names. The 257 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 257 | #919 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 241 | #952 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 238 | #951 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 251 | #922 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 306 | #802 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 268 | #852 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 240 | #916 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 236 | #913 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 242 | #892 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 205 | #998 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 185 | #1,073 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,183 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,545 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 87 | #1,740 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,121 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,232 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,891 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,591 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,438 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,401 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,135 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wesson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wesson has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 22 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wesson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wesson, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,224 Americans ever recorded as Wesson. The median Wesson alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,586 people named Wesson (18 women and girls, 1,568 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,718 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 286 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,910 |
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).
Where are babies named Wesson born?
The states with the most babies named Wesson are Tennessee, Georgia and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 20 | #408 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 18 | #590 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 17 | #593 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,645 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #821 | 0.8× |
| California | 10 | #1,679 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #843 | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #460 | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 9 | #522 | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 9 | #368 | 2.3× |
Where Wesson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wesson is most over-represented in Ohio: since 2004 it was given 1.6 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 Wesson 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 Wesson
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 Wesson and names like it
- Compare Wesson and AhaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWesson peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wesson since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Wesson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wesson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.