Willard
Willard is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. Its best rank was 58th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19152,889 births
- Best rank
- #58in 1915
- Since 1880
- 77,607people given the name
The story in the numbers
77,607 boys have been named Willard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 2,889 births — 0.34% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 41 births in 2024, against 2,889 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Willard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 939 | |
| 1890s | 1,240 | |
| 1900s | 1,821 | |
| 1910s | 15,364 | |
| 1920s | 18,440 | |
| 1930s | 12,459 | |
| 1940s | 10,602 | |
| 1950s | 7,033 | |
| 1960s | 4,289 | |
| 1970s | 2,262 | |
| 1980s | 1,206 | |
| 1990s | 748 | |
| 2000s | 567 | |
| 2010s | 440 | |
| 2020s | 197 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Willard was the 58th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Willard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elwoodpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Elgiepeak 1918
- Francispeak 1918
- Olenpeak 1922
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Hubertpeak 1924
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.