Welby Popularity by Year

Follow Welby across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Welby birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1997	Boys	5	#9,265	Down 397 places
1995	Boys	5	#8,868	Down 2,640 places
1993	Boys	8	#6,228	Down 769 places
1987	Boys	7	#5,459	Down 1,041 places
1976	Boys	7	#4,418	Up 809 places
1974	Boys	5	#5,227	Down 722 places
1973	Boys	6	#4,505	Up 402 places
1971	Boys	5	#4,907	Down 183 places
1970	Boys	5	#4,724	Down 1,123 places
1964	Boys	6	#3,601	Down 535 places
1951	Boys	7	#3,066	Down 296 places
1950	Boys	8	#2,770	Up 898 places
1948	Boys	5	#3,668	Down 298 places
1947	Boys	6	#3,370	Down 627 places
1945	Boys	7	#2,743	Down 180 places
1943	Boys	9	#2,563	Up 149 places
1942	Boys	8	#2,712	Up 418 places
1940	Boys	6	#3,130	Down 521 places
1939	Boys	8	#2,609	Up 259 places
1938	Boys	7	#2,868	Down 389 places
1937	Boys	9	#2,479	Up 1,070 places
1936	Boys	5	#3,549	Up 130 places
1934	Boys	5	#3,679	Down 1,311 places
1933	Boys	10	#2,368	Up 993 places
1932	Boys	6	#3,361	Down 497 places
1931	Boys	8	#2,864	Up 158 places
1930	Boys	8	#3,022	Down 752 places
1928	Boys	13	#2,270	Up 642 places
1927	Boys	9	#2,912	Up 473 places
1926	Boys	7	#3,385	Down 797 places
1925	Boys	11	#2,588	Up 234 places
1924	Boys	10	#2,822	Up 1,000 places
1923	Boys	6	#3,822	Down 290 places
1922	Boys	7	#3,532	Down 1,552 places
1921	Boys	17	#1,980	Up 785 places
1920	Boys	10	#2,765	Down 613 places
1919	Boys	14	#2,152	Up 108 places
1918	Boys	13	#2,260	Up 302 places
1917	Boys	10	#2,562	Down 713 places
1916	Boys	16	#1,849	Up 980 places
1915	Boys	8	#2,829	Down 372 places
1914	Boys	8	#2,457	Down 781 places
1913	Boys	11	#1,676	Up 868 places
1912	Boys	5	#2,544	Down 1,407 places
1902	Boys	5	#1,137	Down 79 places
1901	Boys	5	#1,058	Down 151 places
1893	Boys	6	#907	—