West
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#1,255
up +76 places
2025 births
159
up +14 births
All-time births
3,692
4% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2025
- 159 births
- Best rank
- #396
- in 1886
- First recorded
- 1880
- #523 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1976
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 2025159#1,255Peak
- 2024145#1,331
- 2022130#1,420
- 201998#1,657
- 202190#1,783
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #396 in 1886 · peak births 159 in 2025
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
3,692 boys · 28 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 West has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.