Willa — #423 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Willa

The Social Security Administration has registered 32,077 babies named Willa between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Willa currently holds the #423 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 889 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Willa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,652 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Willa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 1,557 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Willa in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Willa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 32,077 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.