Willine
Willine was last recorded in 1958, when 5 babies were given it; 449 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Willine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,012, in 1958; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1927, the peak
Willine peaked in 1927, when 20 girls were given it, #2,022 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #7,012 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,316 | 3.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,603 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,483 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,378 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,820 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,228 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,640 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,695 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,675 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 7 | #4,014 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,398 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,858 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,981 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,840 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,293 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,122 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,724 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,315 | 13.2 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,436 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,285 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,400 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,953 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,201 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,686 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,434 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,948 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,022 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,867 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,483 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,507 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,731 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,774 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,158 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,169 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,810 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,792 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,705 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,493 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,423 | 8.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Willine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Willine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Willine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willine, and how old are they?
An estimated 111 Americans named Willine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 77 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 166 people named Willine (165 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,688 babies since 1880, Willine is the third most given (9.6% of them).
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 Willine
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 Willine and names like it
- Compare Willine and WilleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWilline peaked in 1927.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Willine since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Willine.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Willine alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with WMost given first.