Wes

What Wes means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Wes yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 376 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Wes?

US: Rising: up from #1259 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 376 boys got the name (#715 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,543 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.33 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.93 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Wes is #715 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Wes were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Wise10 US
• Wess8 US
• Wais0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Wes

Boys

• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*

For a sister

• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Millie#73Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #469 in 2015, #73 in 2025
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Wes’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.