Name meaning & stats
West
West. 2,726 US babies since 1940, peak 2025.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2025
2,726 US babies were named West between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named West (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2025)