Girls' name · since 2017
Williow
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 32 babies named Williow, peaking in 2018. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #40,395 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,625 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 32
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Williow currently ranks #16625 among girls' names in America, with 32 babies recorded since 2017.
Williow has 32 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16625 as of the latest data, more common than 4% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #40,395 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,625 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 32 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Williow ranks #40,395 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,625 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 32 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,395 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,625 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 32
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Williow's 32 recorded births place it above 44.13% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Williow compares
32 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Williow's all-time total is 91% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Williow | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 32 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Williow's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Williow splits its recorded history at 2022: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2024 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2018 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Williow popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Williow by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Williow's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Williow births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (53% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Williow: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Williow draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.