Westley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Westley is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 79K
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 35K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
6,052 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Westley 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,052 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Westley | 305 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 2K | Westley | 133 |
| BF Burkina Faso | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Westley | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Westley | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 7 | Westley | 56 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | 2 |
6,052 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Westley is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, different form of Wesley
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Westley Hallb. 1711English dissenter
- Robert Westley Hall-Dareb. 1840High Sheriff of County Carlow and of County Wexford; son of Robert Westley Hall-Dare; (1840-1876)
- Alec Skemptonb. 1914GBnot in their usual nameBritish civil engineer (1914–2001)
- W. W. Lawb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican activist (1923–2002)
- Joseph Newmanb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican inventor and author
- Westley Allan Doddb. 1961USAmerican serial killer (1961-1993)
- Mike Robinsonb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player and coach (born 1976)
- Wes Mooreb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician, investment banker, author and television producer
- Wes Morganb. 1984GBnot in their usual nameJamaican association football player (born 1984)
- Aaron Johnsonb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,076 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2K | #3,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,878 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Westley mean, and where does it come from?
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Westley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Westley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled westley.
- Is Westley a male or female name?
- Westley 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.
- How common is the name Westley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,052 people named Westley in 2020, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/westleyThe 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, “Westley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.