Willey

Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905

Peak · boys
1930 · 13 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
282
since 1914

Willey over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Willey has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201922peak #2,178, 1930boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1989#7,9055
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1984#5,5616
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1966#3,9485
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1960#3,3377
1959#3,6196
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1955#3,8865
1954#3,8275
1953#3,7985
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1950#3,0217
1949#3,6905
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1944#3,4305
1943#3,5385
1942#2,5239
1941#2,6568
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1939#2,8297
1938#3,5345
1937#3,5185
1936#2,30110
1935#2,9517
1934#3,2776
1933#2,7388
1932#2,8498
1931#3,0957
1930#2,17813
1929#3,2477
1928
1927#2,9129
1926#3,3857
1925#2,58811
1924#2,22914
1923#3,1758
1922#2,48612
1921#3,8696
1920#3,2088
1919#3,3917
1918#3,3687
1917#2,9568
1916#3,5166
1915#3,0827
1914#2,9156
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First appearance
1914

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.

See more about Willey
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1989
Rise & fade · boys
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1930 at #2,178 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1934, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 80,910
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 29.1% of all boys named Willey (82) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s41#2,915 (1914)#3,205
1920s82#2,229 (1924)#3,011
1930s76#2,178 (1930)#2,927
1940s32#2,523 (1942)#3,167
1950s28#3,021 (1950)#3,630
1960s12#3,337 (1960)#3,643
1970s0
1980s11#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 1922

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#2,486
12 births · 1 in 90,680 boys

Top boys' names in 1922

  1. #1John57,280
  2. #2Robert53,796
  3. #3William51,111
  4. #4James49,802
  5. #5Charles28,839
  6. #6George27,350
  7. #7Joseph25,699
  8. #8Edward20,419
  9. #9Richard17,537
  10. #10Frank16,013
  11. #2,486Willey12
More about 1922

boys

1,088,154 boys got a published name in 1922; 1 in 90,680 of them was named Willey, which outranked 49.9% of the 4,967 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willey
  1. #2,347Yutaka13
  2. #2,347Zenon13
  3. #2,347Zygmunt13
  4. #2,486Willey12
  5. #2,486Abbott12
  6. #2,486Add12
  7. #2,486Adolphe12
  8. #2,630Acy11
  9. #2,630Agustus11
  10. #2,630Alberta11

Tied with 143 names at #2,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
  1. 520Desmond#1,360#840
  2. 504Gorden#1,226#722
  3. 418Jackie#1,140#722
  4. 417Daryl#843#426
  5. 361Brown#1,360#999
Fallers
  1. 600Adolf#991#1,591
  2. 508Nello#962#1,470
  3. 439Newman#843#1,282
  4. 394Marcos#939#1,333
  5. 343Porfirio#939#1,282

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1922