Willena
Willena was last recorded in 1990, when 9 babies were given it; 1,068 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Willena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,222, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1923, the peak
Willena peaked in 1923, when 34 girls were given it, #1,387 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 9 | #9,222 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,299 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,136 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,026 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,484 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,387 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,398 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,180 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,936 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,330 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | #8,143 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,474 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,747 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,778 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,615 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,973 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,459 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,631 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,790 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,955 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,824 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #5,001 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,574 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,853 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,603 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,373 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,023 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,088 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,485 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,318 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,722 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,271 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,101 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,197 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,819 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,777 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,172 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,344 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,694 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,967 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,452 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,285 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,689 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,657 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,268 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,959 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,414 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,750 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,730 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,871 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 17 | #2,002 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,552 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,720 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,748 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,745 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,746 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,433 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,633 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,823 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,663 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,279 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,641 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,387 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,895 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,763 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,950 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,854 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,535 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,505 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,687 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,473 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,121 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,325 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,137 | 16.1 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,931 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,541 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,856 | 20.9 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,171 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Willena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Willena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Willena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willena, and how old are they?
An estimated 403 Americans named Willena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 53 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Willena (474 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,315 babies since 1880, Willena is the second most given (20% 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 Willena
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 Willena and names like it
- Compare Willena and WilleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWillena peaked in 1923.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Willena since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Willena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Willena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.