Wensley
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning from the wens clearing or meadow.
Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Wensley by the numbers
Wensley was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 6 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Wensley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Wensley, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
- Camdenenclosed valley2,786 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Wensley
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