Westly
Westly was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,113 among boys’ names; 941 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Westly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Westly?
#6,113 among boys’ names, 2025
Westly rose from #7,463 in 2015 to #6,113 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 8.8 per million.
24 babies in 1980, the peak
Westly peaked in 1980, when 24 boys were given it, #2,211 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,113 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,801 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,265 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,938 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,755 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #8,012 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,624 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,317 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,646 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,322 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,463 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #8,068 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,014 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,547 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,717 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,947 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,285 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,554 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,990 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,097 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,115 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,233 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,409 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,193 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #5,027 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,301 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,269 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,103 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,777 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,583 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,208 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,215 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,620 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,765 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,082 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,672 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,461 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,122 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,123 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,951 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,488 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,222 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,893 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 24 | #2,211 | 13.5 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,804 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,793 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,360 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,921 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,444 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,440 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,615 | 5.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,711 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,020 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,730 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,977 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,978 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,973 | 4.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #3,039 | 4.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,407 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,265 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,251 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,491 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,380 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,349 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,318 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,244 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,354 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,313 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,290 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,514 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,766 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,954 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,496 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,453 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,105 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,001 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,714 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,740 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,132 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,089 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,010 | 8.2 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,133 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,694 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,723 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,499 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,935 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,856 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,963 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,150 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,159 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Westly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Westly has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Westly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Westly, and how old are they?
An estimated 752 Americans named Westly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 16 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 813 people named Westly (25 women and girls, 788 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 Westly?
Westly is a less common spelling of Westley: SSA has recorded 941 Westly and 10,184 Westley since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,319 babies since 1880, Westly is the second most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 483 babies (3.1%), again the second 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 Westly
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 Westly and names like it
- Compare Westly and WestleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sWestly peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Westly since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Westly.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Westly alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with WMost given first.