Boys' name · since 2023
Whelen
Whelen has 13 recorded births since 2023 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,367 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,835 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Whelen currently ranks #11835 among boys' names in America, with 13 babies recorded since 2023.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Whelen has been recorded 13 times among boys since 2023, currently ranked #11835 nationally and more common than 15% of boys, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2023 to 2025.
- #32,367 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #11,835 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 13 born since 2023
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Whelen ranks #32,367 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,835 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 13 born since 2023, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,367 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,835 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 13
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Whelen's 13 recorded births place it above 28.77% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Whelen compares
13 5th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Whelen's all-time total is 96% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Whelen | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 13 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Whelen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Whelen's SSA record in two at 2025 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2025, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2023 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Whelen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Whelen by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Whelen's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Whelen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Whelen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2023–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Whelen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.