girls:
5 births since 2019
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 2004
#2418 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 2004
#5163 (33rd percentile)
The name Wesson is the #5,163 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,724 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 33.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,418 (47.3% percentile) for all time with 2,719 births since 2004. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Wesson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (2004 for boys and 2019 for girls).
The name Wesson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wesson reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 31.1% percentile (ranked #641) with 163 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 163 births per million (ranked 31.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wesson ranks #681 for boys (25.3% percentile) with 129 births per million, which is 79.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wesson reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wesson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wesson is pronounced as WEH-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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