How Many People Are Named Willy?
people named Willy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 113,700 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,053 babies named Willy in Social Security records from 1884 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
69 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of WILLIAM, WILHELM or WILLEM. It is both masculine and feminine in Dutch.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Willy in English. Counting Willy and these spellings together, about 207,936 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Willy, 1.5% were girls and 98.5% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Willy fell from 12.2% in the 1910s to 0% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Willy alive today is about 38 years old, and 40% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 56 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Willy first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1993, to 69 babies. In 2025, 27 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Willy has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #979, in 1896. In 2025 it ranked #4,040.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,040 |
| Best rank | #979 (1896) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,717 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Willy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Willy were born in California than in any other state: about 500 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Willy was given 3.7 times as often in New York, 3.6 times in California and 1.9 times in Texas.
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