Willetta
Willetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192252 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1893
- 1,880people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,880 girls have been named Willetta in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 19%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Willetta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 37 | |
| 1900s | 55 | |
| 1910s | 282 | |
| 1920s | 357 | |
| 1930s | 292 | |
| 1940s | 270 | |
| 1950s | 233 | |
| 1960s | 188 | |
| 1970s | 91 | |
| 1980s | 70 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Willetta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Willetta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delmapeak 1926
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Vernicepeak 1923
- Rethapeak 1924
- Bernettapeak 1921
- Laurinepeak 1918
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Revapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.