Willow

girls:

55.6k births since 1890

#539 (91st percentile)

boys:

409 births since 1924

#4177 (9th percentile)

overall:

56k births since 1890

#1002 (87th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Willow".

1890 2023 18902023

Key Statistics

Total Births
55,552
Peak Births
5,185
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1890
Peak Percentile
96.2%
Current Percentile
96.0%
Peak Rank
#37
Current Rank
#39
Female statistics
Total Births
409
Peak Births
46
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1924
Peak Percentile
4.5%
Current Percentile
4.5%
Peak Rank
#553
Current Rank
#870
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Willow

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Willow. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 97.6% confident that Willow is pronounced as WIH-loh. The next most likely pronunciation is wih-LOH, at 2.4% confidence.

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WIH-loh (2 syllables)
Verified
97.6% confidence
W IH1 L OW0
wih-LOH (2 syllables)
2.4% confidence
W IH0 L OW1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Willow. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Willow, please vote using the thumbs up button.

WIH-luh (2 syllables)
4 names 31.9k births
W IH1 L AH0
WEE-loh (2 syllables)
1 name 216 births
W IY1 L OW0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 OW0) 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.