girls:
6 births since 1922
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
94 births since 1915
#4492 (2nd percentile)
overall:
100 births since 1915
#7639 (1st percentile)
The name Willet is the #7,639 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 100 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,492 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1922.
Willet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Willet is available in 15 out of the 26 years between 1915 and 1940 (15 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Willet has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Willet reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #547) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1940.
For girls, Willet reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Willet".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Willet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.9% confident that Willet is pronounced as WIH-liht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIH-luht, at 37.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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