# Wei (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wei/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 369 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 290 / 79 (21% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 136, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 | 10,253 |
| 1984 | 8 | 8,138 |
| 1985 | 8 | 8,300 |
| 1986 | 5 | 12,788 |
| 1987 | 9 | 7,979 |
| 1991 | 5 | 15,402 |
| 1992 | 6 | 13,288 |
| 1993 | 5 | 15,726 |
| 1994 | 5 | 15,689 |
| 1995 | 6 | 13,342 |
| 1999 | 6 | 14,353 |
| 2001 | 5 | 17,876 |
| 2007 | 5 | 20,424 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 10 | 5,756 |
| 1994 | 12 | 5,099 |
| 1995 | 11 | 5,489 |
| 1996 | 13 | 4,866 |
| 1997 | 17 | 4,052 |
| 1998 | 18 | 4,010 |
| 1999 | 12 | 5,640 |
| 2000 | 10 | 6,813 |
| 2001 | 15 | 5,134 |
| 2002 | 9 | 7,615 |
| 2003 | 14 | 5,542 |
| 2004 | 14 | 5,795 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,291 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,641 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,614 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2007 | 9 | 2,023 |
| 2008 | 14 | 1,511 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,318 |
| 2010 | 17 | 1,407 |
| 2011 | 17 | 1,398 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |

## People named Wei

- Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1976)
- Tang Wei, Chinese actress (born 1979)
- Pang Wei, Chinese sport shooter
- Jiang Wei, Chinese Shu Han state general (202-264)
- Yang Wei, Chinese badminton player
- Du Wei, Chinese footballer
- Deng Wei, Chinese weightlifter
- Sun Wei, Chinese artistic gymnast
- Xiaowei Zhuang, Chinese American biophysicist
- Wei Wei, Chinese writer (1920-2008)
- Du Wei, Ambassador of China to Israel, Ambassador of China to Ukraine
- Wu Wei, Chinese painter (1459-1508)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.