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Weslie vs Westin

American parents have registered 7,440 Westins since 1880, against 1,023 Weslies. Westin is still ahead, with 401 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Weslie against Westin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Weslie Westin

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 85 years in which either name was published, Westin for 44 years and Weslie for 41 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Weslie Westin
Total US births 1,0237,440
Most in one year 88475
Babies in 2025 86401
Estimated living today 8807,400
Median age today 910
Peak year 20242023
Best rank 2,248th girls596th boys
Rank in 2025 2,326th688th
First recorded 19141981
Girls / boys 628 / 39526 / 7,414

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Weslie and Westin.