Welby
About 372 American babies have been named Welby since 1893, most of them around 1921. It has not appeared in the national data since 1997. About 90 Welbys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Welby
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 372
- Estimated living today
- 90
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,980th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1893
How old the living Welbys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 372 babies given the name since 1893, about 90 are alive — 24 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Welby is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Welby is most concentrated in Kentucky (49.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Welby peaked:
Related names
Welby against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.