Wesson
About 3,224 American babies have been named Wesson since 2004, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 917th. About 3,200 Wessons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wesson boys named Wesson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,224
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 800th
- Rank in 2025
- 917th
- First recorded
- 2004
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 3,219
How old the living Wessons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,224 babies given the name since 2004, about 3,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 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 the name comes from
A patronymic surname from literally son of Wes, the latter a diminutive of the male given name Wesley.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Wesson is most common
Across the country Wesson is recorded 0.70 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Wessons are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Wesson peaked:
Wesson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Wesson | 50 | 5,419th |
| England and Wales boys | Wesson | 3 | 4,702nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Wesson 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.