# Westley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/westley/  
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 | 10,184 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,119 / 65 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 107, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | 13,837 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,965 |
| 2017 | 6 | 15,799 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17,989 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,983 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10,253 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17,615 |
| 2023 | 9 | 11,113 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,553 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,868 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 116 | 1,428 |
| 2012 | 140 | 1,265 |
| 2013 | 186 | 1,038 |
| 2014 | 174 | 1,099 |
| 2015 | 200 | 1,018 |
| 2016 | 239 | 903 |
| 2017 | 262 | 847 |
| 2018 | 291 | 786 |
| 2019 | 291 | 793 |
| 2020 | 325 | 747 |
| 2021 | 340 | 750 |
| 2022 | 367 | 719 |
| 2023 | 400 | 679 |
| 2024 | 419 | 657 |
| 2025 | 453 | 619 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Westley

- Westley Allan Dodd, American serial killer (1961-1993)
- Wes Moore, American politician, investment banker, author and television producer

## 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.