How popular is “Willis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Willis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willis” 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	166	0.000823887		166	-100%
1881	142	0.000736943		142	-100%
1882	143	0.000645502		143	-100%
1883	131	0.000603837		131	-100%
1884	151	0.000620223		151	-100%
1885	133	0.000552202		133	-100%
1886	150	0.000587507		150	-100%
1887	118	0.000476976	5	113	-92%
1888	135	0.00045079		135	-100%
1889	124	0.000429146		124	-100%
1890	129	0.000428001		129	-100%
1891	118	0.000411619		118	-100%
1892	143	0.000427665		143	-100%
1893	149	0.000458147		149	-100%
1894	133	0.000392689		133	-100%
1895	135	0.000384593		135	-100%
1896	145	0.000405613		145	-100%
1897	132	0.000380451		132	-100%
1898	121	0.000317206		121	-100%
1899	133	0.00039206	7	126	-89%
1900	169	0.00037534		169	-100%
1901	115	0.000332551	9	106	-84%
1902	144	0.00037235		144	-100%
1903	133	0.000348898		133	-100%
1904	136	0.000337063		136	-100%
1905	136	0.000320814		136	-100%
1906	148	0.00034543		148	-100%
1907	146	0.000313715		146	-100%
1908	168	0.000343805	7	161	-92%
1909	200	0.000391218	11	189	-89%
1910	223	0.000377511	7	216	-94%
1911	247	0.000383375	14	233	-89%
1912	464	0.000469606	11	453	-95%
1913	583	0.000512703	10	573	-97%
1914	752	0.000530944	9	743	-98%
1915	965	0.000526624	15	950	-97%
1916	1009	0.000521604	19	990	-96%
1917	979	0.000487853	25	954	-95%
1918	1108	0.000510338	17	1091	-97%
1919	1165	0.000552069	29	1136	-95%
1920	1216	0.000537425	19	1197	-97%
1921	1234	0.000528592	25	1209	-96%
1922	1275	0.000556974	25	1250	-96%
1923	1215	0.000527692	32	1183	-95%
1924	1276	0.000535772	15	1261	-98%
1925	1221	0.000523293	23	1198	-96%
1926	1264	0.000550545	31	1233	-95%
1927	1087	0.000468664	29	1058	-95%
1928	1106	0.000489177	21	1085	-96%
1929	1050	0.000478979	20	1030	-96%
1930	983	0.000442138	18	965	-96%
1931	952	0.000452388	21	931	-96%
1932	932	0.000441436	21	911	-95%
1933	829	0.000414615	17	812	-96%
1934	886	0.000426615	19	867	-96%
1935	811	0.000388057	22	789	-95%
1936	785	0.000377844	17	768	-96%
1937	745	0.000349655	21	724	-94%
1938	744	0.00033626	13	731	-97%
1939	705	0.000319954	12	693	-97%
1940	614	0.000266645	5	609	-98%
1941	696	0.000285664	11	685	-97%
1942	679	0.000248552	13	666	-96%
1943	770	0.000272802	18	752	-95%
1944	631	0.000234566	8	623	-97%
1945	584	0.000220136	5	579	-98%
1946	602	0.000188401	18	584	-94%
1947	611	0.000169613	11	600	-96%
1948	590	0.00017089	6	584	-98%
1949	484	0.00013889	5	479	-98%
1950	487	0.000139009	11	476	-95%
1951	520	0.000141161	16	504	-94%
1952	519	0.000136651	6	513	-98%
1953	486	0.000126114	6	480	-98%
1954	452	0.000113548	5	447	-98%
1955	461	0.000114817	9	452	-96%
1956	457	0.000110841	13	444	-94%
1957	455	0.000108278	8	447	-96%
1958	416	0.000100631		416	-100%
1959	412	0.000099086	5	407	-98%
1960	414	0.000099667		414	-100%
1961	365	0.000088115	8	357	-96%
1962	374	0.00009268		374	-100%
1963	349	0.000088171	9	340	-95%
1964	324	0.000083342		324	-100%
1965	305	0.000084128	5	300	-97%
1966	254	0.00007308		254	-100%
1967	238	0.000070105		238	-100%
1968	230	0.000068079		230	-100%
1969	227	0.000065318		227	-100%
1970	260	0.000072092		260	-100%
1971	253	0.00007371		253	-100%
1972	245	0.000077951		245	-100%
1973	193	0.000063973		193	-100%
1974	199	0.000065461		199	-100%
1975	203	0.000067232		203	-100%
1976	181	0.000059651		181	-100%
1977	232	0.000073036		232	-100%
1978	214	0.000067426		214	-100%
1979	233	0.000070033		233	-100%
1980	228	0.000066192		228	-100%
1981	199	0.000057525		199	-100%
1982	227	0.00006471		227	-100%
1983	203	0.000058614		203	-100%
1984	186	0.000053314		186	-100%
1985	186	0.000052114		186	-100%
1986	176	0.000049479		176	-100%
1987	169	0.000046871		169	-100%
1988	183	0.000049526		183	-100%
1989	171	0.00004448	5	166	-94%
1990	159	0.000040228		159	-100%
1991	163	0.000041846		163	-100%
1992	126	0.000032802		126	-100%
1993	127	0.000033685		127	-100%
1994	119	0.000032009		119	-100%
1995	115	0.000031402		115	-100%
1996	113	0.000030983		113	-100%
1997	95	0.000026201		95	-100%
1998	106	0.000028818		106	-100%
1999	109	0.000029508		109	-100%
2000	107	0.000028308		107	-100%
2001	82	0.000021905		82	-100%
2002	70	0.000018725		70	-100%
2003	78	0.000020514		78	-100%
2004	65	0.000017012		65	-100%
2005	66	0.000017166		66	-100%
2006	79	0.000019969		79	-100%
2007	80	0.000020012		80	-100%
2008	59	0.00001501		59	-100%
2009	66	0.000017277		66	-100%
2010	52	0.00001407		52	-100%
2011	74	0.000020231		74	-100%
2012	78	0.000021327		78	-100%
2013	75	0.000020572		75	-100%
2014	81	0.000021854		81	-100%
2015	74	0.000019995		74	-100%
2016	70	0.00001908		70	-100%
2017	51	0.000014261		51	-100%
2018	55	0.000015643		55	-100%
2019	50	0.000014405		50	-100%
2020	62	0.00001856		62	-100%
2021	62	0.0000183		62	-100%
2022	44	0.000013006		44	-100%
2023	60	0.00001812		60	-100%
2024	49	0.000014721		49	-100%

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