Willene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Willene has been given to 2,928 babies in the U.S. since 1905. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1929, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Willene, 1975
1 in 604,000
Willene over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Willene?
Willene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Willene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Willenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Willene was born before 1936 — so the typical Willene is around 89 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 26.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 584
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (779).
Is Willene 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1929 (97)
- Years since peak
- 96
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Willene
Willene is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 77.4% against Willene's 1.5%.
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.
Where Willene is used
Across 1910–2025, Willene was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 34,686 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 6,667
- 2Arkansas1 in 8,333
- 3Alabama1 in 12,500
- 4Tennessee1 in 20,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Oklahoma1 in 50,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Willene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Willene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Willene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Willene
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Willene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Willene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.