# Weldon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/weldon/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,274 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,249 / 25 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 | 5,561 |
| 1922 | 5 | 5,767 |
| 1924 | 10 | 3,378 |
| 1931 | 5 | 4,948 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 3,882 |
| 2012 | 22 | 4,524 |
| 2013 | 30 | 3,576 |
| 2014 | 34 | 3,295 |
| 2015 | 31 | 3,586 |
| 2016 | 43 | 2,836 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,713 |
| 2018 | 35 | 3,298 |
| 2019 | 47 | 2,734 |
| 2020 | 40 | 2,977 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3,650 |
| 2022 | 44 | 2,917 |
| 2023 | 49 | 2,690 |
| 2024 | 42 | 2,997 |
| 2025 | 46 | 2,793 |

## People named Weldon

- Weldon, Brazilian footballer
- Weldon Olson, American ice hockey player
- Weldon Heyburn, American actor (1910–1951)
- Weldon B. Heyburn, American politician (1852–1912)
- Weldon Kees, American artist (1914-1955)
- J.J. Cale, American musician (1938–2013)
- Gregory Meeks, American politician (born 1953)
- Steven Squyres, American astronomer

## 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.