girls:
34 births since 1921
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
127 births since 1913
#4459 (3rd percentile)
overall:
161 births since 1913
#7578 (2nd percentile)
The name Willett is the #7,578 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,459 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 1921.
Willett first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Willett is available in 22 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (20 years for boys and 6 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 Willett has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Willett were boys.
For boys, Willett reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #526) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Willett ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 24.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Willett reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #602) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Willett".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Willett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Willett is pronounced as WIH-liht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIH-luht, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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