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Willa
Rank in 2024
#423
Born in 2024
729
Peak year
2019 · #356
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 729 girls were named Willa, about 1 in every 2,213.
- It peaked in 2019 with 889 babies, ranked #356.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 32,077 girls have been named Willa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Willa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,273 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Silent: 7,710 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,887 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 684 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 520 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,406 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,747 babies, 0.43 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Derived from Wilhelmina and recoined in the 19th century in America based on the male given names Will and William.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Willa, CC BY-SA 4.0.