Willie — #1367 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Willie

The Social Security Administration has registered 450,033 babies named Willie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Willie currently holds the #1367 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 7,995 babies received it in a single year. Willie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 146,188 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Willie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 72,419 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Willie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 60,676 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Willie in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Willie 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 450,033 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.