Willia
Willia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 620th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192894 births
- Best rank
- #620in 1902
- Since 1882
- 3,866people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,316 girls have been named Willia in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 94 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 94 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 550 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Willia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 98 | |
| 1900s | 171 | |
| 1910s | 459 | |
| 1920s | 741 | |
| 1930s | 692 | |
| 1940s | 651 | |
| 1950s | 353 | |
| 1960s | 107 | |
| 1970s | 20 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Willia was the 735th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Willia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pearlypeak 1924
- Rebapeak 1925
- Retapeak 1946
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Rethapeak 1924
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Claricepeak 1921
- Freidapeak 1947
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.