Willah

#13,110 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Willah has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #13,110 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Willah, 2025

1 in 474,000

Willah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Willah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,110
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Willah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Willahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Willah was born before 2021 — so the typical Willah is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
67.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
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Choose a decade

2020s — 67.8% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Willah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,081
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,293
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2021 (11)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,509
2021

Spellings of Willah

Willah is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 31.2% against Willah's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Willah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,110
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,081
Best rank ever
#9,509
2021
Peak year
2021
11 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Willah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Willah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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