Skip to main content

Human names › W

Wellesley

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name3 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls and boys

In 2025

#10,615 for boys

Peak

2021, #12,135

Since 1880

68 babies

Charting: Wellesley

Figure 1. Human babies named Wellesley, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
1880192019602000202525peak 2021 · #12135
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Wellesley was given to 7 boys in 2025, ranking 10,615th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 12,135th and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 8 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 1,105 places since 2020.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Wellesley, for a fleet with a birth year.

Villain probability, by sound

Villain probability is a Premium feature.

Upgrade for $0 to see whether this agent will turn on you.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Wellesley yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.

As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Wellesley · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent