Westyn
Westyn was given to 371 boys in 2025, #724 among boys’ names; 3,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Westyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Westyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Westyn?
#724 among boys’ names, 2025
Westyn rose from #1,404 in 2015 to #724 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.22 per 1,000.
381 babies in 2025, the peak
Westyn peaked in 2025, when 381 babies were given it (371 boys, #724 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 320 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 371 | #724 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 320 | #788 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 310 | #801 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 248 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 197 | #1,079 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,151 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,127 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,155 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,404 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,360 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,474 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 104 | #1,543 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 97 | #1,599 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,250 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,512 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,194 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,264 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,689 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,502 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,497 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,178 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Westyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,328 Americans recorded as Westyn, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 girls and 371 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Westyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Westyn, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,328 Americans ever recorded as Westyn. The median Westyn alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,427 people named Westyn (112 women and girls, 1,315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,666 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 522 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,760 |
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 Westyn born?
The states with the most babies named Westyn are Texas, Ohio and Kentucky, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #777 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 22 | #497 | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 21 | #267 | 1.6× |
| Indiana | 17 | #429 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 17 | #885 | 0.5× |
| New York | 17 | #842 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 15 | #569 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #327 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 13 | #708 | 0.5× |
| California | 12 | #1,504 | 0.2× |
Where Westyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Westyn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1989 it was given 1.7 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 Westyn 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, Westyn is the third most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 381 of their 6,449 babies (5.9%), 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 Westyn
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 Westyn and names like it
- Compare Westyn and WestonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWestyn peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Westyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Westyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Westyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.