girls:
146.2k births since 1880
#270 (95th percentile)
boys:
449.9k births since 1880
#70 (98th percentile)
overall:
596.1k births since 1880
#100 (99th percentile)
The name Willie is the #100 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 596,072 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #70 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 449,890 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #270 (95.3% percentile) for all time with 146,182 births since 1880.
Willie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Willie has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 96.0% of babies named Willie were boys.
For boys, Willie reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 96.4% percentile (ranked #11) with 13,893 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 13,893 births per million (ranked 96.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1936, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Willie ranks #773 for boys (15.2% percentile) with 78 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Willie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 89.9% percentile (ranked #61) with 3,449 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 4,281 births per million (ranked 86.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Willie ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Willie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Willie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Willie is pronounced as WIH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WEE-lee, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like W IH1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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