Willia
Willia reached its high-water mark in 1928 at number 731, and has been recorded 3,866 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1989. About 1,300 Willias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Willia boys named Willia
Girls and boys called Willia
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 3,316 girls and 550 boys in all, and in 1959 the split was 16 to 14.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 52 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,866
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 731st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 3,316 / 550
How old the living Willias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,866 babies given the name since 1882, about 1,300 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 960 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Willia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Willia is most concentrated in South Carolina (8.0×), Mississippi (7.7×), Alabama (7.4×), Kentucky (5.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular girls’ names the year Willia peaked:
Related names
Willia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.