Boy Names Starting With W
Start with W and the list for boys is headed by William: 10,545 babies in 2025. One of them even sits in the overall top 10 for 2025.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #9 | William | 10,545 |
| #38 | Wyatt | 6,480 |
| #52 | Wesley | 5,578 |
| #55 | Weston | 5,482 |
| #56 | Waylon | 5,408 |
| #78 | Walker | 4,204 |
| #240 | Warren | 1,471 |
| #252 | Walter | 1,381 |
| #344 | Wade | 948 |
| #347 | Wells | 944 |
| #382 | Winston | 830 |
| #431 | Wilder | 743 |
| #619 | Westley | 453 |
| #655 | Wayne | 422 |
| #671 | Wylder | 407 |
| #673 | Wilson | 405 |
| #689 | Westin | 396 |
| #716 | Wes | 376 |
| #724 | Westyn | 371 |
| #849 | Waylen | 289 |
| #919 | Wesson | 257 |
| #964 | Wallace | 241 |
| #1,011 | Watson | 224 |
| #1,090 | Wren | 198 |
| #1,182 | Wylie | 175 |
| #1,195 | Will | 170 |
| #1,226 | Wiley | 165 |
| #1,239 | Westen | 162 |
| #1,251 | Wisdom | 160 |
| #1,255 | West | 159 |
| #1,322 | Willie | 147 |
| #1,365 | Warner | 137 |
| #1,476 | Woods | 121 |
| #1,519 | Wolfgang | 115 |
| #1,653 | Woodrow | 102 |
| #1,726 | Wynn | 95 |
| #1,742 | Wilmer | 94 |
| #1,823 | Whitley | 88 |
| #1,902 | Wolf | 83 |
| #1,958 | Whit | 79 |
| #1,990 | Winter | 77 |
| #2,165 | Wendell | 67 |
| #2,181 | Whitaker | 66 |
| #2,301 | Wayland | 61 |
| #2,419 | Weller | 57 |
| #2,448 | Wali | 56 |
| #2,449 | Walton | 56 |
| #2,450 | Woodson | 56 |
| #2,567 | Willis | 52 |
| #2,598 | Waris | 51 |
Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin W boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.
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Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with W.
Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.