Willett
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Willett has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1918, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Willett, 2023
1 in 663,000
Willett 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Willett over time
In 2023, Willett went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Willett?
Willett had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Willett sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Willetts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Willett was born before 1923 — so the typical Willett is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 35.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Willett 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 1918 (10)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Willett
Willett is not the most common spelling — Wilbert is, with 93.1% against Willett's 0.30%.
Willett by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Willett
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Willett
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.