Willey
Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
- Peak · boys
- 1930 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 282since 1914
Willey over time
Rank among boys' names. Willey has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
| 1942 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,301 | 10 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | #2,738 | 8 |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #2,178 | 13 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,912 | 9 |
| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #2,588 | 11 |
| 1924 | #2,229 | 14 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,486 | 12 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,915 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Willey! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1928, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Willey is popular in 1914
No state had 5 or more boys named Willey in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Willey
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1989
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1930 at #2,178 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 80,910 boys born in 1924 were named Willey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 400,186 boys born in 1989 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,178 in 1930, was only 1 in 84,414 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.1% of all boys named Willey (82) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 41 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,205 |
| 1920s | 82 | #2,229 (1924) | #3,011 |
| 1930s | 76 | #2,178 (1930) | #2,927 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,523 (1942) | #3,167 |
| 1950s | 28 | #3,021 (1950) | #3,630 |
| 1960s | 12 | #3,337 (1960) | #3,643 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 11 | #5,561 (1984) | #6,733 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Willey in 1914
Top boys' names in 1914
More about 1914
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654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 109,127 of them was named Willey, which outranked 22.5% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,651Yoshito7
- #2,651Zebulon7
- #2,651Zigmunt7
- #2,915Willey6
- #2,915Abbot6
- #2,915Abelardo6
- #2,915Abundio6
- #3,264Abbey5
- #3,264Ada5
- #3,264Adan5
Tied with 348 names at #2,915; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.