Welles
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#2,985
up +614 places
2025 births
42
up +10 births
All-time births
470
9% of them in 2025
More common than
82%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2021
- 56 births
- Best rank
- #2,437
- in 2021
- First recorded
- 1915
- #4,377 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2017
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 17 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 202156#2,437Peak
- 201746#2,714
- 201846#2,707
- 202243#2,958
- 202542#2,985
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2,437 in 2021 · peak births 56 in 2021
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 98% boys■ 2% girls
470 boys · 10 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Welles has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.