Weslei
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɛzlej/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weslei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 338K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 437K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
32,959 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weslei counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 32,959 | 1 in 6.4K | 71K | Weslei | 104 |
| US United States | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Weslei | 41 |
| PT Portugal | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Weslei | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Weslei | 4 |
| FR France | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Weslei | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | Weslei | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Weslei | 2 |
32,959 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 71K | #609 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 70K | #190 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 33K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33K | #768 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 32K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 28K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 6.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 5.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 4.6K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Weslei?
- A machine transcription gives /wɛzlej/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Weslei a male or female name?
- Weslei is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Weslei?
- In the etymology graph, Wesley is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Weslei have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Weslei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weslei.
- Where is Weslei most common?
- Weslei is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Weslei?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32,959 people named Weslei in 2022, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Weslei?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wesleiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Weslei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.