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Willette

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Willette has been given to 2,123 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1965, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Willette, 2005

1 in 769,000

Willette 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Willette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Willette means

Willette is a given name.

The naming story behind Willette

Wikidata records Willette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q108548785, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,123 girls were recorded with the name Willette between 1899 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1965; its best national rank was #1,406 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Willette?

Willette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Willette 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Willettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Willette was born before 1956 — so the typical Willette is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,298
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (465).

Is Willette 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 1965 (62)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,406
1965

Spellings of Willette

Willette is not the most common spelling — Collette is, with 36.5% against Willette's 10.1%.

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 Willette is used

Across 1910–2025, Willette was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 246,067 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Willette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Willette

People whose public names include Willette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Willette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Willette. Linked forms have their own page here.

Willetta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Willette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,406
1965
Peak year
1965
62 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
2,123
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Willette

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

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Names with a curve like Willette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Willette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Willette

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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