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Wes

Pronounced /wɛs/

Rank in 2024
#741
Born in 2024
345
Peak year
2024 · #741
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 345 boys were named Wes, about 1 in every 4,972.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 6,408 boys have been named Wes since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Wes per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 48 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 131 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,256 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,052 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 503 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 806 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,589 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A diminutive of the male given names Wesley and Weston.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/wɛs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Wes, CC BY-SA 4.0.