girls:
10 births since 2019
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
396 births since 1915
#4190 (9th percentile)
overall:
406 births since 1915
#7333 (5th percentile)
The name Welles is the #7,333 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 406 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 5.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,190 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 396 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2019.
Welles first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Welles is available in 15 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (15 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Welles has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Welles reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #879) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 30 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Welles ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 56.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Welles reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Welles".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Wells. View all variations of Wells.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Welles", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 1 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Wells" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Wells..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Welles. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Welles is pronounced as wehlz, which has 1 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Welles? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Welles. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Welles, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like W EH1 L Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker