first name
WILLA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,808 people named Willa, 73.5% reported their origin as White, 16.8% as Black and 4.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Willa peaked in 2019, when 889 babies got the name.
At least 32,848 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Willa by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #551. The largest share of babies named Willa, 28.9%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Willa is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Willa has been most common in West Virginia (3.2×), Oklahoma (3.1×), and Arkansas (2.7×), and least common in New Jersey (0.24×).
27,115 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Willa, most common first.
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