Willy
Willy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 980th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199369 births
- Best rank
- #980in 1896
- Since 1884
- 4,026people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,910 boys have been named Willy in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 69 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1990s alone account for 14%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 116 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Willy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 21 | |
| 1910s | 115 | |
| 1920s | 196 | |
| 1930s | 243 | |
| 1940s | 282 | |
| 1950s | 326 | |
| 1960s | 420 | |
| 1970s | 379 | |
| 1980s | 383 | |
| 1990s | 535 | |
| 2000s | 503 | |
| 2010s | 352 | |
| 2020s | 143 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Willy was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Willy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fidelpeak 2001
- Eugeniopeak 1982
- Benitopeak 2023
- Alfonsopeak 1991
- Federicopeak 1976
- Leopoldopeak 1980
- Reyespeak 1999
- Demetriopeak 1999
Other spellings in the data
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.