Willette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Willette

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,123 babies named Willette between 1899 and 2005, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Willette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Willette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 465 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Willette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 101 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Willette in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Willette 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 2,123 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.