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How popular is “Weslie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Weslie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Weslie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Weslie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Weslie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Weslie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Weslie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Weslie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1943 12 0.000004251 5 7 -17%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1963 17 0.000004295 7 10 -18%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 5 6 -9%
1980 15 0.000004355 9 6 20%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 8 9 -6%
1987 16 0.000004438 7 9 -13%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 12 5 41%
1991 11 0.000002824 6 5 9%
1992 18 0.000004686 11 7 22%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 14 0.000003766 8 6 14%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 7 5 17%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 21 0.000005666 14 7 33%
2015 18 0.000004864 18 100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 100%
2020 37 0.000011076 31 6 68%
2021 54 0.000015939 54 100%
2022 39 0.000011528 39 100%
2023 71 0.000021442 61 10 72%
2024 88 0.000026438 83 5 89%

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