Willodean
Willodean was last recorded in 1958, when 7 babies were given it; 1,237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 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 Willodean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willodean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,393, in 1958; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1928, the peak
Willodean peaked in 1928, when 76 girls were given it, #830 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 7 | #5,393 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,714 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,741 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,030 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,898 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,378 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,778 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,660 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,488 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,058 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 18 | #2,315 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,453 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,135 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,947 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,757 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,881 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,441 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,349 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,248 | 31.7 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,387 | 27.3 |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,134 | 38.4 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,134 | 37.2 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,189 | 35.4 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,075 | 42.7 |
| 1932 | 67 | #854 | 62.8 |
| 1931 | 66 | #856 | 62.0 |
| 1930 | 57 | #982 | 50.6 |
| 1929 | 67 | #875 | 60.0 |
| 1928 | 76 | #830 | 65.9 |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,021 | 47.8 |
| 1926 | 64 | #941 | 54.0 |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,117 | 39.4 |
| 1924 | 53 | #1,084 | 42.4 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,463 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,782 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,436 | 26.8 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,625 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,741 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,669 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,423 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,802 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,783 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,175 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Willodean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Willodean has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Willodean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willodean, and how old are they?
An estimated 235 Americans named Willodean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 85 years old and half are between 79 and 90. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 382 people named Willodean (381 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below 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).
Where are babies named Willodean born?
The states with the most babies named Willodean are Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Tennessee and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 596 | not ranked | 16.2× |
| Tennessee | 76 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Arkansas | 47 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Indiana | 42 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Willodean is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Willodean is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1914 it was given 16.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Willodean with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,345 babies since 1880, Willodean is the most given (53% 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 Willodean
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 Willodean and names like it
- Compare Willodean and WilladeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWillodean peaked in 1928.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Willodean since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Willodean.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Willodean alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with WMost given first.