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Willie
Pronounced /ˈwɪli/
Rank in 2024
#1,367
Born in 2024
137
Peak year
1947 · #42
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:6 in 2024 (#13,569)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 137 boys were named Willie, about 1 in every 12,521.
- It peaked in 1947 with 7,995 babies, ranked #42.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 450,033 boys have been named Willie since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Willie per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.1Greatest1901–27
- 5.7Silent1928–45
- 3.2Boomers1946–64
- 1.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 117,883 babies, 7.05 per 1,000. Silent: 117,098 babies, 5.67 per 1,000. Boomers: 120,592 babies, 3.21 per 1,000. Gen X: 43,036 babies, 1.58 per 1,000. Millennials: 22,258 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,483 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,815 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Will + -ie.
- A diminutive of the male given name William.
- A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈwɪli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Willie, CC BY-SA 4.0.