# Wellington (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wellington/  
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 | 2,879 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,879 / 0 (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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,730 |
| 2012 | 24 | 4,240 |
| 2013 | 15 | 5,902 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,980 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,539 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,522 |
| 2017 | 32 | 3,517 |
| 2018 | 33 | 3,439 |
| 2019 | 43 | 2,895 |
| 2020 | 43 | 2,839 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,117 |
| 2022 | 31 | 3,685 |
| 2023 | 31 | 3,703 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,270 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,382 |

## People named Wellington

- Wellington Koo, Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China
- Wellington Rocha, East Timorese association football player
- Wellington Daniel Bueno, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington Luís de Sousa, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington Clayton Gonçalves dos Santos, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington Nem, Brazilian footballer
- Wellington Silva, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington da Silva de Souza, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington Katzor de Oliveira, Brazilian association football player
- Wellington Sánchez, Ecuadorian footballer
- Wellington Paulista, Brazilian footballer
- Wellington Aparecido Martins, Brazilian footballer

## 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.