Wellington vs Welton

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Wellington Welton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Wellington for 83 years and Welton for 57 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

• 1880–1918 Wellington ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1919–1971 Welton ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1980–2025 Wellington ahead

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Weltons alive today are over 65; half the Wellingtons are over 31. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Wellington Michigan (7.0×), New York (5.1×), Pennsylvania (4.0×)
• Welton Louisiana (10.1×), Texas (6.2×), Virginia (4.6×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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