Wellington
Wellington is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 496th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192260 births
- Best rank
- #496in 1891
- Since 1880
- 2,855people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,855 boys have been named Wellington in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 60 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wellington | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 71 | |
| 1900s | 82 | |
| 1910s | 360 | |
| 1920s | 414 | |
| 1930s | 228 | |
| 1940s | 220 | |
| 1950s | 169 | |
| 1960s | 158 | |
| 1970s | 143 | |
| 1980s | 158 | |
| 1990s | 178 | |
| 2000s | 174 | |
| 2010s | 242 | |
| 2020s | 181 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Wellington was the 902nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Wellington
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alcidepeak 1924
- Sanderspeak 1951
- Amospeak 1922
- Orinpeak 1920
- Leanderpeak 2023
- Omerpeak 1918
- Reubenpeak 1920
- Juliuspeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.