Wilna — girls' name
559 babies named Wilna in U.S. Social Security records since 1896, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Wilna was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Wilna in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Wilna
The Social Security Administration has registered 559 babies named Wilna between 1896 and 1959, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wilna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Wilna performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 178 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Wilna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Wilna in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Wilna 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 559 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.
Wilna at a glance
Last recorded 1959Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Wilna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1959–1896
- Peak year (1918)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1959.
559 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 30 births in a single year.
Wilna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 178 births that decade — 32% of Wilna's all-time total
Wilna decade highlights
- Peak decade 178 births
- Runner-up 163 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Wilna's strongest decade
178 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Wilna by state
Where Wilna concentrates geographically — total births since 1896
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.1% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1896–1959 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.