Wesson
3,224 recorded births · active 2004–2025
Compare Wesson →Living-age distribution
The median living Wesson is 7. If you meet a Wesson, there's about a 70% chance they're between 2 and 12 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Wesson: 2021. Down 15% from peak.
Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.
Gender balance
Wesson is almost always given to male babies — 99.8% male.
Rarity
Wesson ranks #5,614 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Wessons are 1.1x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Wesson's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Wesson's modeled peak was #1,669 in 2021 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.
This forecasts Wesson's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 22 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its trend is projected to stay below its historic best over the next 10 years, so the model treats 2021 as its peak. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Wesson is holding within 15% of its all-time peak share and growth has flattened out — it's plateaued near the top rather than still climbing or sliding.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Wesson isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Wesson enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.