Willamae
Willamae was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,829 among girls’ names; 412 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Willamae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willamae?
#14,829 among girls’ names, 2025
Willamae entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,829 in 2025.
28 babies in 1923, the peak
Willamae peaked in 1923, when 28 girls were given it, #1,595 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,829 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,390 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,269 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,612 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,098 | 5.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,847 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,638 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,184 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,753 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,543 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | #4,043 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,484 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,114 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,407 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,852 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,234 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,839 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,908 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,168 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,090 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #2,001 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,398 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,890 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,838 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,337 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,042 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,185 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,049 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,564 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,770 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,306 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,595 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,383 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,157 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,387 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,997 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,284 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,097 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,492 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,682 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,630 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,324 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,966 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Willamae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Willamae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Willamae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willamae, and how old are they?
An estimated 97 Americans named Willamae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Willamae (259 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 96 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,807 babies since 1880, Willamae is the third most given (23% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Willamae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Willamae and names like it
- Compare Willamae and WilliemaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWillamae peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Willamae.
- Names starting with WMost given first.