Willmer

Last seen for girls in 1922 at #4,445 · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472
Given to boys 98.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
1923 · 21 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
309
since 1913

Willmer over time

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Rank among boys' names. Willmer has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201929peak #1,696, 1923boys
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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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2005#11,4725
2004#11,3565
2003#10,8945
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1944#2,6338
1943#3,5385
1942#3,5605
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1939#2,8297
1938#3,1756
1937#2,9057
1936#3,1476
1935#3,2526
1934#3,6795
1933#2,5429
1932#2,6389
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1930#2,29312
1929#2,31712
1928#3,3577
1927#2,70310
1926#2,30213
1925#2,08915
1924#2,34713
1923#1,69621
1922#4,4456#1,88318
1921#3,2148
1920#2,33613
1919#2,66510
1918#2,39812
1917#2,09114
1916#2,15213
1915#2,18412
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1913#2,0928
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Willmer! It came in at #2,092, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Willmer
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1923 at #1,696 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1927, 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 52,195
  • Highest: 1 in 52,195 boys born in 1923 were named Willmer (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 399,461 boys born in 2005 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 42.1% of all boys named Willmer (130) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s69#2,091 (1917)#2,264
1920s130#1,696 (1923)#2,424
1930s67#2,293 (1930)#2,940
1940s18#2,633 (1944)#3,244
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s25#10,556 (2001)#10,989

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.

Willmer in 1929

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#2,317
12 births · 1 in 89,635 boys

Top boys' names in 1929

  1. #1Robert59,807
  2. #2James52,135
  3. #3John52,112
  4. #4William47,815
  5. #5Charles29,930
  6. #6Richard29,572
  7. #7Donald27,181
  8. #8George23,020
  9. #9Joseph21,165
  10. #10Edward17,220
  11. #2,317Willmer12
More about 1929

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1,075,615 boys got a published name in 1929; 1 in 89,635 of them was named Willmer, which outranked 49.0% of the 4,545 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willmer
  1. #2,199Vilas13
  2. #2,199Wiliam13
  3. #2,199Woodford13
  4. #2,317Willmer12
  5. #2,317Agnes12
  6. #2,317Albion12
  7. #2,317Amon12
  8. #2,452Aden11
  9. #2,452Alexis11
  10. #2,452Alfons11

Tied with 134 names at #2,317; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1928
Risers
  1. 2,188Davey#2,843#655
  2. 554Davie#1,413#859
  3. 374Derald#1,095#721
  4. 358Vernal#1,353#995
  5. 350Ken#1,228#878
Fallers
  1. 530Adolf#950#1,480
  2. 426Quinton#913#1,339
  3. 349Thornton#963#1,312
  4. 346Verlyn#891#1,237
  5. 346Isidore#891#1,237

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

See the top 100 for 1929