How popular is “Willie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Willie” 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 “Willie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Willie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willie” 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	668	0.0033154	192	476	-43%
1881	727	0.003772939	229	498	-37%
1882	832	0.003755648	291	541	-30%
1883	738	0.003401768	264	474	-28%
1884	910	0.003737765	332	578	-27%
1885	926	0.003844653	312	614	-33%
1886	1029	0.0040303	388	641	-25%
1887	969	0.003916861	379	590	-22%
1888	1308	0.004367658	522	786	-20%
1889	1196	0.004139182	488	708	-18%
1890	1336	0.004432633	578	758	-13%
1891	1301	0.004538272	562	739	-14%
1892	1579	0.004722257	631	948	-20%
1893	1530	0.004704464	648	882	-15%
1894	1695	0.005004576	709	986	-16%
1895	1795	0.005113669	724	1071	-19%
1896	1847	0.005166665	755	1092	-18%
1897	1969	0.005675055	818	1151	-17%
1898	2012	0.005274541	878	1134	-13%
1899	1894	0.005583167	806	1088	-15%
1900	3464	0.007693367	1351	2113	-22%
1901	2195	0.00634738	901	1294	-18%
1902	2636	0.006816072	1071	1565	-19%
1903	2468	0.006474292	1014	1454	-18%
1904	2863	0.007095679	1188	1675	-17%
1905	3067	0.007234822	1285	1782	-16%
1906	2989	0.006976294	1233	1756	-17%
1907	3362	0.007224048	1394	1968	-17%
1908	3335	0.00682494	1371	1964	-18%
1909	3724	0.007284478	1549	2175	-17%
1910	4693	0.007944663	1796	2897	-23%
1911	4129	0.006408724	1637	2492	-21%
1912	5775	0.005844775	2267	3508	-21%
1913	6024	0.00529764	2264	3760	-25%
1914	7468	0.00527273	2759	4709	-26%
1915	8475	0.004625016	3041	5434	-28%
1916	8776	0.004536767	3116	5660	-29%
1917	9132	0.004550641	3381	5751	-26%
1918	10404	0.004792016	3867	6537	-26%
1919	10993	0.005209348	4051	6942	-26%
1920	10703	0.004730309	3816	6887	-29%
1921	10239	0.00438594	3748	6491	-27%
1922	10789	0.004713091	3885	6904	-28%
1923	10628	0.00461589	3963	6665	-25%
1924	10692	0.0044894	3992	6700	-25%
1925	11071	0.004744778	3947	7124	-29%
1926	10637	0.004633031	3817	6820	-28%
1927	10853	0.004679312	3884	6969	-28%
1928	10260	0.00453794	3443	6817	-33%
1929	9935	0.004532058	3319	6616	-33%
1930	9685	0.004356161	3018	6667	-38%
1931	8560	0.004067691	2597	5963	-39%
1932	9211	0.004362734	2662	6549	-42%
1933	8431	0.004216666	2449	5982	-42%
1934	8736	0.004206439	2388	6348	-45%
1935	8697	0.004161443	2370	6327	-45%
1936	8235	0.00396375	2224	6011	-46%
1937	8425	0.003954155	2194	6231	-48%
1938	8099	0.003660443	2019	6080	-50%
1939	8261	0.003749134	1952	6309	-53%
1940	8112	0.003522844	1937	6175	-52%
1941	8388	0.003442749	1860	6528	-56%
1942	9159	0.003352712	2067	7092	-55%
1943	9174	0.003250242	1994	7180	-57%
1944	9088	0.003378339	1894	7194	-58%
1945	8806	0.003319374	1777	7029	-60%
1946	9026	0.002824768	1687	7339	-63%
1947	9678	0.0026866	1683	7995	-65%
1948	9637	0.002791296	1667	7970	-65%
1949	9449	0.002711509	1532	7917	-68%
1950	9058	0.002585519	1338	7720	-70%
1951	8499	0.002307167	1275	7224	-70%
1952	8396	0.002210634	1200	7196	-71%
1953	8213	0.002131229	1156	7057	-72%
1954	7942	0.001995123	1111	6831	-72%
1955	7561	0.001883151	933	6628	-75%
1956	7459	0.001809103	931	6528	-75%
1957	6997	0.001665103	785	6212	-78%
1958	6388	0.001545271	698	5690	-78%
1959	6007	0.001444688	632	5375	-79%
1960	5830	0.001403529	590	5240	-80%
1961	5292	0.001277551	504	4788	-81%
1962	5013	0.001242265	469	4544	-81%
1963	4597	0.001161386	407	4190	-82%
1964	4553	0.001171158	405	4148	-82%
1965	4143	0.001142755	335	3808	-84%
1966	3824	0.001100224	280	3544	-85%
1967	3633	0.001070136	241	3392	-87%
1968	3313	0.000980638	205	3108	-88%
1969	3244	0.000933438	195	3049	-88%
1970	3305	0.000916397	167	3138	-90%
1971	2999	0.000873744	137	2862	-91%
1972	2727	0.000867644	131	2596	-90%
1973	2510	0.000831983	119	2391	-91%
1974	2328	0.00076579	105	2223	-91%
1975	2263	0.000749488	89	2174	-92%
1976	2215	0.000729987	83	2132	-93%
1977	2225	0.000700458	62	2163	-94%
1978	2202	0.00069379	67	2135	-94%
1979	2214	0.000665464	61	2153	-94%
1980	2231	0.000647698	63	2168	-94%
1981	2020	0.000583921	54	1966	-95%
1982	2015	0.000574408	56	1959	-94%
1983	1808	0.00052204	45	1763	-95%
1984	1660	0.000475814	54	1606	-93%
1985	1608	0.000450532	34	1574	-96%
1986	1527	0.000429285	37	1490	-95%
1987	1521	0.000421842	42	1479	-94%
1988	1462	0.000395665	35	1427	-95%
1989	1498	0.000389653	38	1460	-95%
1990	1393	0.000352437	16	1377	-98%
1991	1333	0.00034221	14	1319	-98%
1992	1234	0.000321248	22	1212	-96%
1993	1087	0.000288308	25	1062	-95%
1994	957	0.00025742	17	940	-96%
1995	835	0.000228008	11	824	-97%
1996	811	0.000222363	11	800	-97%
1997	782	0.00021568	8	774	-98%
1998	747	0.000203088	8	739	-98%
1999	668	0.00018084		668	-100%
2000	617	0.000163232	7	610	-98%
2001	608	0.00016242		608	-100%
2002	569	0.000152209		569	-100%
2003	558	0.000146753		558	-100%
2004	492	0.000128765		492	-100%
2005	481	0.000125103		481	-100%
2006	507	0.000128154		507	-100%
2007	476	0.000119069	6	470	-97%
2008	460	0.000117029		460	-100%
2009	405	0.000106016	5	400	-98%
2010	388	0.000104986		388	-100%
2011	390	0.000106622		390	-100%
2012	369	0.000100892		369	-100%
2013	337	0.000092439	5	332	-97%
2014	331	0.000089306		331	-100%
2015	307	0.000082953		307	-100%
2016	294	0.000080137		294	-100%
2017	290	0.000081092	5	285	-97%
2018	231	0.000065702	5	226	-96%
2019	212	0.000061079	5	207	-95%
2020	215	0.00006436		215	-100%
2021	161	0.000047521		161	-100%
2022	186	0.000054979	10	176	-89%
2023	150	0.000045301	6	144	-92%
2024	143	0.000042962	6	137	-92%

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