How popular is “Willow” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willow” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Willow” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willow” 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
1890	5	0.000016589	5		100%
1902	5	0.000012929	5		100%
1904	8	0.000019827	8		100%
1906	8	0.000018672	8		100%
1907	5	0.000010744	5		100%
1908	9	0.000018418	9		100%
1909	5	0.00000978	5		100%
1912	6	0.000006072	6		100%
1913	12	0.000010553	12		100%
1914	11	0.000007766	11		100%
1915	23	0.000012552	23		100%
1916	20	0.000010339	20		100%
1917	10	0.000004983	10		100%
1918	15	0.000006909	15		100%
1919	14	0.000006634	14		100%
1920	20	0.000008839	20		100%
1921	23	0.000009852	23		100%
1922	15	0.000006553	15		100%
1923	27	0.000011726	27		100%
1924	32	0.000013436	26	6	63%
1925	27	0.000011572	27		100%
1926	35	0.000015245	35		100%
1927	23	0.000009917	23		100%
1928	30	0.000013269	30		100%
1929	26	0.00001186	26		100%
1930	19	0.000008546	19		100%
1931	24	0.000011405	24		100%
1932	26	0.000012315	26		100%
1933	24	0.000012003	24		100%
1934	23	0.000011075	23		100%
1935	14	0.000006699	14		100%
1936	24	0.000011552	24		100%
1937	13	0.000006101	13		100%
1938	22	0.000009943	22		100%
1939	19	0.000008623	19		100%
1940	16	0.000006948	16		100%
1941	15	0.000006157	15		100%
1942	12	0.000004393	12		100%
1943	14	0.00000496	14		100%
1944	23	0.00000855	23		100%
1945	21	0.000007916	21		100%
1946	20	0.000006259	20		100%
1947	24	0.000006662	24		100%
1948	18	0.000005214	18		100%
1949	12	0.000003444	12		100%
1950	14	0.000003996	14		100%
1951	13	0.000003529	13		100%
1952	10	0.000002633	10		100%
1953	17	0.000004411	17		100%
1954	12	0.000003015	12		100%
1955	21	0.00000523	21		100%
1956	16	0.000003881	16		100%
1957	14	0.000003332	14		100%
1958	8	0.000001935	8		100%
1959	13	0.000003127	13		100%
1960	15	0.000003611	15		100%
1961	13	0.000003138	13		100%
1962	12	0.000002974	12		100%
1963	12	0.000003032	12		100%
1964	20	0.000005145	20		100%
1965	11	0.000003034	11		100%
1966	14	0.000004028	14		100%
1967	10	0.000002946	10		100%
1968	15	0.00000444	15		100%
1969	17	0.000004892	17		100%
1970	20	0.000005546	20		100%
1971	33	0.000009614	33		100%
1972	32	0.000010181	32		100%
1973	43	0.000014253	43		100%
1974	54	0.000017763	54		100%
1975	53	0.000017553	53		100%
1976	66	0.000021751	66		100%
1977	64	0.000020148	64		100%
1978	75	0.00002363	75		100%
1979	67	0.000020138	62	5	85%
1980	60	0.000017419	60		100%
1981	41	0.000011852	41		100%
1982	41	0.000011688	41		100%
1983	32	0.00000924	32		100%
1984	30	0.000008599	30		100%
1985	37	0.000010367	37		100%
1986	22	0.000006185	22		100%
1987	21	0.000005824	21		100%
1988	26	0.000007036	26		100%
1989	35	0.000009104	35		100%
1990	29	0.000007337	29		100%
1991	61	0.00001566	55	6	80%
1992	59	0.000015359	54	5	83%
1993	51	0.000013527	51		100%
1994	84	0.000022595	84		100%
1995	90	0.000024576	90		100%
1996	133	0.000036466	125	8	88%
1997	175	0.000048266	169	6	93%
1998	256	0.000069599	250	6	95%
1999	322	0.000087172	310	12	93%
2000	307	0.000081219	301	6	96%
2001	379	0.000101245	379		100%
2002	553	0.000147929	546	7	97%
2003	544	0.000143071	537	7	97%
2004	527	0.000137925	519	8	97%
2005	549	0.000142789	542	7	97%
2006	583	0.000147364	578	5	98%
2007	783	0.000195863	771	12	97%
2008	797	0.000202765	797		100%
2009	1053	0.000275642	1053		100%
2010	1128	0.000305216	1121	7	99%
2011	1583	0.000432775	1575	8	99%
2012	1853	0.000506649	1838	15	98%
2013	2099	0.000575752	2079	20	98%
2014	2425	0.000654278	2410	15	99%
2015	2826	0.000763596	2811	15	99%
2016	3141	0.000856162	3124	17	99%
2017	3582	0.001001623	3569	13	99%
2018	3960	0.001126313	3933	27	99%
2019	4630	0.001333935	4603	27	99%
2020	4415	0.001321628	4396	19	99%
2021	5229	0.001543412	5193	36	99%
2022	5103	0.001508364	5064	39	98%
2023	4809	0.001452345	4761	48	98%
2024	4683	0.00140694	4653	30	99%

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