Willette
Willette 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
- 196562 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1899
- 2,123people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,123 girls have been named Willette in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1965, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1960s alone account for 22%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Willette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 144 | |
| 1920s | 226 | |
| 1930s | 183 | |
| 1940s | 240 | |
| 1950s | 412 | |
| 1960s | 465 | |
| 1970s | 264 | |
| 1980s | 119 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1965, its biggest year
Willette was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1965 were Lisa, Mary, Karen, Kimberly and Susan. See all of 1965.
Names that rose and fell with Willette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Felicepeak 1970
- Vernitapeak 1961
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Venitapeak 1960
- Loreepeak 1963
- Anitapeak 1957
- Arlethapeak 1963
- Vernettapeak 1951
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.