Willene
Willene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 713th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192997 births
- Best rank
- #713in 1933
- Since 1905
- 2,928people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,928 girls have been named Willene in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 97 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 97 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 27%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1929, its biggest year
Willene was the 714th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1929 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Willene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ardithpeak 1930
- Verlinepeak 1933
- Mardellpeak 1932
- Geraldinepeak 1930
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Arletapeak 1932
- Eloispeak 1935
- Verdellpeak 1932
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.