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In all the world, ウェスト (West , ウェスト ) is a common primarily masculine, but very seldom girly given name. The first name ウェスト is habitual in Nigeria, where it is quite a rare primarily male, but scarcely feminine name, Mongolia, where it is quite a rare boy's name, and Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare mostly boy's, but infrequently female name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Nigeria, the United States, and Ethiopia. More frequently, ウェスト is the last name as well as the forename.
ウェスト is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: West Rosen , the fictional character in the television series Heroes and West Virginia Mountaineer .