Williard
Williard was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 1,086 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Williard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Williard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,344, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1915, the peak
Williard peaked in 1915, when 61 boys were given it, #774 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #7,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,124 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 9 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #4,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,090 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,930 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,247 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,089 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,238 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,866 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,757 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,488 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,961 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,419 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,433 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 48 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 43 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 61 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,992 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,309 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,153 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 9 | #997 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,228 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,199 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 12 | #693 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,207 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,303 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 9 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Williard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Williard has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Williard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Williard, and how old are they?
An estimated 221 Americans named Williard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 58 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 253 people named Williard (5 women and girls, 248 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 79,628 babies since 1880, Williard is the second most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 47 babies recorded by SSA was a Williard (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 Williard
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 Williard and names like it
- Compare Williard and WillardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sWilliard peaked in 1915.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Williard since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Williard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Williard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.