girls:
183 births since 2010
#5533 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1989
#2567 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1989
#5251 (32nd percentile)
The name Westyn is the #5,251 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,605 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 32.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,567 (44.0% percentile) for all time with 2,422 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,533 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 2010.
Westyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Westyn is available in 30 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 13 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 Westyn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.2% of babies named Westyn were boys.
For boys, Westyn reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 32.3% percentile (ranked #617) with 169 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 169 births per million (ranked 32.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Westyn is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #617 (32.3% percentile) with 169 births per million.
For girls, Westyn reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #940) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Westyn ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 94.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Westyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Westyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Westyn is pronounced as WEH-stihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WEH-stuhn, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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