Meaning and Origin of: Wesley

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : West meadow

Boy name variations

Wes
Wessely
Wess

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named with the Old English elements west ‘west’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, as for example Westley in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, and Westleigh in Devon and Greater Manchester.

Famous people with this first name

Wesley Snipes