Willia
Willia was last recorded in 1989, when 8 babies were given it; 3,866 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Willia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 64 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Willia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,155, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
101 babies in 1928, the peak
Willia peaked in 1928, when 101 babies were given it (94 girls, #735 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #6,204 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 12 | #4,149 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 16 | #3,191 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 20 | #2,680 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 16 | #3,064 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,687 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 8 | #4,891 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 11 | #3,959 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,155 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 11 | #3,834 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,341 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #5,043 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,303 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,922 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,445 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #4,177 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,858 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,957 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,534 | 8 | #3,954 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,334 | 11 | #3,067 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,961 | 9 | #3,307 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,632 | 10 | #2,900 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,977 | 8 | #3,223 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,551 | 12 | #2,461 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,197 | 7 | #3,530 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,377 | 5 | #4,580 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,266 | 7 | #3,639 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,527 | 8 | #3,299 |
| 1961 | 12 | #4,006 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,206 | 6 | #4,029 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,102 | 14 | #2,292 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,070 | 16 | #2,089 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,345 | 10 | #2,817 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,318 | 7 | #3,527 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,514 | 8 | #3,196 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,558 | 11 | #2,586 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,584 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,485 | 5 | #4,249 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,500 | 8 | #3,059 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,331 | 8 | #3,016 |
| 1949 | 55 | #1,234 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,082 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 1947 | 56 | #1,215 | 10 | #2,665 |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,146 | 8 | #2,914 |
| 1945 | 82 | #839 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 71 | #917 | 8 | #2,859 |
| 1943 | 55 | #1,085 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 77 | #896 | 10 | #2,516 |
| 1941 | 55 | #992 | 6 | #3,498 |
| 1940 | 76 | #819 | 8 | #2,864 |
| 1939 | 90 | #723 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 69 | #856 | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1937 | 50 | #1,001 | 5 | #4,008 |
| 1936 | 75 | #784 | 5 | #4,031 |
| 1935 | 77 | #774 | 8 | #2,942 |
| 1934 | 62 | #870 | 8 | #2,960 |
| 1933 | 60 | #876 | 5 | #4,136 |
| 1932 | 67 | #853 | 9 | #2,843 |
| 1931 | 70 | #818 | 6 | #3,750 |
| 1930 | 72 | #846 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 71 | #848 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 94 | #735 | 7 | #3,686 |
| 1927 | 81 | #816 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 80 | #823 | 12 | #2,561 |
| 1925 | 65 | #931 | 9 | #3,148 |
| 1924 | 75 | #867 | 5 | #4,951 |
| 1923 | 71 | #880 | 8 | #3,461 |
| 1922 | 81 | #818 | 5 | #4,949 |
| 1921 | 57 | #1,002 | 5 | #4,961 |
| 1920 | 66 | #902 | 12 | #2,598 |
| 1919 | 68 | #849 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 56 | #968 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 63 | #878 | 5 | #4,588 |
| 1916 | 63 | #866 | 5 | #4,517 |
| 1915 | 57 | #872 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,174 | 10 | #2,267 |
| 1913 | 41 | #829 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,054 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 26 | #851 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 32 | #767 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 23 | #867 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 20 | #911 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,034 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,099 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 26 | #712 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 14 | #999 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,075 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 29 | #620 | 6 | #1,133 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,135 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,426 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,391 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 13 | #1,008 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,092 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 12 | #998 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 13 | #929 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 11 | #996 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,649 | 5 | #1,176 |
| 1892 | 12 | #907 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,208 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,094 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,022 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,274 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,025 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Willia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,866 Americans recorded as Willia, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Willia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willia, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 32% of the 3,866 Americans ever recorded as Willia. The median Willia alive today is 75 years old; half are between 64 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 1,728 people named Willia (738 women and girls, 990 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 391 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 578 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Willia born?
The states with the most babies named Willia are Alabama, Texas and South Carolina, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 197 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 185 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 168 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| North Carolina | 162 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 149 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Mississippi | 141 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 92 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 73 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 51 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Willia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Willia is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Willia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 37,857 babies since 1880, Willia is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 none of their 758 babies recorded by SSA was a Willia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Willia
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 Willia and names like it
- Compare Willia and WillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWillia peaked in 1928.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Willia since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Willia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Willia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.