Willodene

Where Willodene comes from

Willodene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,291 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1932
    Peak, #1,817
    19 babies named Willodene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,802.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Willodene hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.