Willowdean

#17,131 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Willowdean has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #17,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Willowdean, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,131
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Willowdean 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willowdean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Willowdeans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Willowdean was born before 1931 — so the typical Willowdean is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12
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1930s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Willowdean 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.

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Rank vs 5 years ago
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
27.8%
Peak was 1927 (18)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,165
1927

Spellings of Willowdean

Willowdean is not the most common spelling — Willodean is, with 55.9% against Willowdean's 3.4%.

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.

Willowdean by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,131
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,165
1927
Peak year
1927
18 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Willowdean

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Sibling names for Willowdean

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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