Willia
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Willia has been given to 3,866 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1928, with 94 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Willia, 1981
1 in 692,000
Willia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Willia over time
In 1989, Willia 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 Willia?
Willia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Willia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Willias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Willia was born before 1932 — so the typical Willia is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 485
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (741).
Is Willia 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 1928 (94)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Willia
Willia is not the most common spelling — Lillian is, with 34.3% against Willia's 0.24%.
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 Willia is used
Across 1910–2025, Willia was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 41,620 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 14,286
- 2Mississippi1 in 14,286
- 3South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 4Kentucky1 in 20,000
- 5Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 8Georgia1 in 50,000
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. Willia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Willia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Willia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Willia
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Willia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Willia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.