How Many People Are Named Will?
people named Will are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 17,102 people in the US has this name
Based on 46,610 babies named Will in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
712 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of WILLIAM or other names beginning with Will. A famous bearer is American actor Will Smith (1968-), whose full name is Willard.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Will in English. Counting Will and these spellings together, about 21,040 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Will (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Will alive today is about 36 years old, and 49% are under 30. Half of them were between 18 and 53 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Will first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1888, to 712 babies. In 2025, 170 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Will never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #25, in 1882, and it was in the top 100 for 30 years, 1880 to 1909. In 2025 it ranked #1,195.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,195 |
| Best rank | #25 (1882) |
| Years in the top 100 | 30 (1880 to 1909) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #26 in the 1880s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Will alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Will were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,804 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Will was given 6.6 times as often in Mississippi, 4.1 times in Alabama and 2.9 times in Tennessee.
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