Wesson is an English surname, a variant of Weston, which comes from Old English and means "west town" or "western settlement". As a first name it owes its rise to the firearms maker Smith and Wesson and sits alongside Colt, Remington and Ruger in the group of gun-brand names that took off in the 2010s. Wesson had fewer than five births in 2000, entered the top 1000 in 2016, peaked at number 802 in 2021 and ranks 919th in 2025.