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How popular is “Willard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willard” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Willard” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Willard” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Willard” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Willard” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Willard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willard” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 88 0.000436759 88 -100%
1881 94 0.000487835 94 -100%
1882 83 0.000374662 83 -100%
1883 92 0.000424069 92 -100%
1884 89 0.000365562 89 -100%
1885 95 0.00039443 95 -100%
1886 80 0.000313337 80 -100%
1887 95 0.000384006 95 -100%
1888 123 0.00041072 123 -100%
1889 100 0.000346085 100 -100%
1890 89 0.000295288 89 -100%
1891 101 0.000352318 101 -100%
1892 121 0.00036187 121 -100%
1893 118 0.000362828 118 -100%
1894 122 0.000360211 122 -100%
1895 113 0.000321919 113 -100%
1896 152 0.000425194 152 -100%
1897 143 0.000412155 143 -100%
1898 142 0.000372259 5 137 -93%
1899 151 0.00044512 7 144 -91%
1900 181 0.000401992 9 172 -90%
1901 136 0.000393277 136 -100%
1902 164 0.000424065 164 -100%
1903 170 0.00044596 8 162 -91%
1904 188 0.00046594 8 180 -91%
1905 194 0.000457631 14 180 -86%
1906 189 0.000441124 11 178 -88%
1907 207 0.000444788 6 201 -94%
1908 238 0.000487057 9 229 -92%
1909 232 0.000453813 13 219 -89%
1910 275 0.000465541 10 265 -93%
1911 353 0.0005479 15 338 -92%
1912 737 0.000745905 19 718 -95%
1913 946 0.000831934 20 926 -96%
1914 1330 0.000939037 28 1302 -96%
1915 2924 0.001595699 35 2889 -98%
1916 2445 0.001263947 32 2413 -97%
1917 2229 0.001110751 41 2188 -96%
1918 2354 0.001084237 43 2311 -96%
1919 2047 0.00097003 33 2014 -97%
1920 2120 0.000936957 31 2089 -97%
1921 2106 0.000902118 29 2077 -97%
1922 2041 0.000891595 24 2017 -98%
1923 1968 0.00085473 23 1945 -98%
1924 1860 0.000780984 26 1834 -97%
1925 1824 0.000781725 29 1795 -97%
1926 1835 0.000799249 25 1810 -97%
1927 1765 0.000760986 31 1734 -96%
1928 1641 0.000725805 13 1628 -98%
1929 1532 0.000698854 21 1511 -97%
1930 1558 0.000700764 21 1537 -97%
1931 1401 0.000665752 25 1376 -96%
1932 1369 0.000648418 12 1357 -98%
1933 1301 0.00065068 18 1283 -97%
1934 1185 0.000570585 11 1174 -98%
1935 1227 0.000587109 13 1214 -98%
1936 1168 0.000562193 11 1157 -98%
1937 1177 0.000552408 14 1163 -98%
1938 1106 0.00049987 11 1095 -98%
1939 1111 0.000504211 8 1103 -99%
1940 1150 0.000499417 10 1140 -98%
1941 1094 0.000449019 9 1085 -98%
1942 1201 0.000439634 10 1191 -98%
1943 1238 0.000438609 7 1231 -99%
1944 1048 0.00038958 9 1039 -98%
1945 963 0.000362998 6 957 -99%
1946 1057 0.000330798 1057 -100%
1947 1032 0.000286482 7 1025 -99%
1948 950 0.000275161 950 -100%
1949 935 0.00026831 8 927 -98%
1950 846 0.000241483 5 841 -99%
1951 778 0.000211198 778 -100%
1952 805 0.000211953 6 799 -99%
1953 773 0.000200589 6 767 -98%
1954 682 0.000171326 6 676 -98%
1955 723 0.000180071 723 -100%
1956 659 0.000159834 5 654 -98%
1957 636 0.000151351 636 -100%
1958 586 0.000141755 586 -100%
1959 573 0.000137807 573 -100%
1960 547 0.000131686 5 542 -98%
1961 513 0.000123844 7 506 -97%
1962 460 0.000113992 460 -100%
1963 497 0.000125562 497 -100%
1964 438 0.000112666 438 -100%
1965 413 0.000113917 413 -100%
1966 389 0.000111921 389 -100%
1967 400 0.000117824 6 394 -97%
1968 344 0.000101823 5 339 -97%
1969 316 0.000090927 5 311 -97%
1970 350 0.000097047 350 -100%
1971 306 0.000089152 306 -100%
1972 284 0.00009036 284 -100%
1973 220 0.000072923 220 -100%
1974 198 0.000065132 198 -100%
1975 229 0.000075843 229 -100%
1976 177 0.000058333 177 -100%
1977 172 0.000054148 172 -100%
1978 155 0.000048836 155 -100%
1979 171 0.000051398 171 -100%
1980 164 0.000047612 164 -100%
1981 136 0.000039313 136 -100%
1982 130 0.000037059 130 -100%
1983 128 0.000036959 128 -100%
1984 103 0.000029523 103 -100%
1985 105 0.000029419 105 -100%
1986 111 0.000031205 111 -100%
1987 117 0.000032449 117 -100%
1988 99 0.000026793 99 -100%
1989 113 0.000029393 113 -100%
1990 91 0.000023024 91 -100%
1991 81 0.000020794 81 -100%
1992 89 0.000023169 89 -100%
1993 76 0.000020158 76 -100%
1994 72 0.000019367 72 -100%
1995 83 0.000022664 83 -100%
1996 67 0.00001837 67 -100%
1997 66 0.000018203 66 -100%
1998 64 0.0000174 64 -100%
1999 59 0.000015972 59 -100%
2000 60 0.000015873 60 -100%
2001 61 0.000016295 61 -100%
2002 64 0.00001712 64 -100%
2003 59 0.000015517 59 -100%
2004 63 0.000016488 63 -100%
2005 60 0.000015605 60 -100%
2006 55 0.000013902 55 -100%
2007 48 0.000012007 48 -100%
2008 57 0.000014501 57 -100%
2009 40 0.000010471 40 -100%
2010 49 0.000013259 49 -100%
2011 36 0.000009842 36 -100%
2012 47 0.000012851 47 -100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 -100%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 -100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 -100%
2016 47 0.000012811 47 -100%
2017 55 0.000015379 55 -100%
2018 50 0.000014221 50 -100%
2019 46 0.000013253 46 -100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 -100%
2021 28 0.000008265 28 -100%
2022 41 0.000012119 41 -100%
2023 43 0.000012986 43 -100%
2024 41 0.000012318 41 -100%

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