Westen
Westen was given to 162 boys in 2025, #1,239 among boys’ names; 1,907 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,890 Americans named Westen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Westen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Westen?
#1,239 among boys’ names, 2025
Westen rose from #1,892 in 2015 to #1,239 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 40.7 to 94.8 per million.
162 babies in 2025, the peak
Westen peaked in 2025, when 162 boys were given it, #1,239 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 134 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,239 | 94.8 |
| 2024 | 134 | #1,403 | 77.8 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,517 | 68.4 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,478 | 70.4 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,453 | 71.4 |
| 2020 | 81 | #1,848 | 46.9 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,999 | 41.2 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,014 | 40.2 |
| 2017 | 77 | #1,895 | 41.6 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,205 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,892 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,943 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 93 | #1,644 | 49.2 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,771 | 44.8 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,122 | 33.2 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,007 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,447 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,942 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,245 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,510 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,052 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,231 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,101 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,482 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,658 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,908 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,330 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,289 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,268 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,934 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,839 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,737 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,786 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,656 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,229 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,656 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,905 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,101 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,780 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,499 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,286 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,304 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,362 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,266 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Westen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Westen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Westen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Westen, and how old are they?
1,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,907 Americans ever recorded as Westen. The median Westen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,100 people named Westen (8 women and girls, 1,092 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 101 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 515 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
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 Westen born?
The states with the most babies named Westen are Ohio, Texas and Missouri, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 14 | #672 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,751 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 9 | #647 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #907 | 0.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,194 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 6 | #944 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #781 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,105 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,083 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,468 | 0.2× |
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 Westen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 88,753 babies since 1880, Westen is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 6,449 babies (2.5%), again the fourth 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 Westen
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 Westen and names like it
- Compare Westen and WestonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWesten peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Westen since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Westen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Westen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.