Willia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Willia

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,316 babies named Willia between 1882 and 1981, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Willia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1981. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Willia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 550 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Willia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 741 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Willia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 197 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Willia in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Willia 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 3,316 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.