girls:
52 births since 2015
#5664 (1st percentile)
overall:
52 births since 2015
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Willah is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 2015. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 2015.
Willah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2015 (first recorded for girls in 2015). Birth data for Willah is available in 7 out of the 9 years between 2015 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Willah reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #930) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Willah ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 74.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Willah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Willah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Willah is pronounced as WIH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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