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Boy's name · #52 in the US (2025) · Trending
98% boys · 2% girls — Wesley is also given to girls: 101 in 2025, about 1 in 45 in recent years. Wesley →
Wesley is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1880, it stood at #52 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 248,000 boys have been named Wesley along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
US births of Wesley rose from 1,531 in 1975 to 4,302 in 1977, around the 1976–77 run of ABC’s Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, which featured Wesley Jordache.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#38 in Canada (2025) · #269 in New Zealand (2025) · #535 in France (2025) · #539 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,036 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,350 in Belgium (2025) · #1,527 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,043 in Italy (2024) · #3,481 in Austria (2025) · #619 in Scotland (2024) · #793 in Netherlands (2024) · #770 in Ireland (2023) and 5 more.
Among 629 notable people named Wesley:
Sports figures appear 1.93× more often than among typical names — e.g. Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer (born 1984).
About 320 boys a year are given Wes as their full name.
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