Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Wellman

#20,356 most common boys' name of all time · #53,511 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1929

Rank among boys
#20,356
Rank overall
#53,511 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
45
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1917 #2,947
Best rank
#2,947 1917
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1920

Wellman first appears in 1916. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1929 — 6 6 #3,849
1926 — 7 7 #3,647
1925 — 6 6 #4,063
1923 — 5 5 #4,662
1918 — 7 7 #3,680
1917 — 9 9 #2,947
1916 — 5 5 #4,528