unisex NAME · CURRENTLY #10615

Wellesley

WELZ-lee

“An English place surname meaning approximately “woodland clearing by a spring,” from well and Old English leah.”

An English surname and place name used occasionally as a given name.

unisexformaluncommon
SSA POPULARITY HISTORY

How Wellesley has traveled through time

62015 132020 132025
LATEST YEAR202513 births
PEAK RANK#4227in 1923
CURRENT USAGE46.2% F53.8% M

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.