Willis
Willis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 86th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19241,261 births
- Best rank
- #86in 1880
- Since 1880
- 52,283people given the name
The story in the numbers
52,283 boys have been named Willis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 1,261 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 49 births in 2024, against 1,261 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Willis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,388 | |
| 1890s | 1,331 | |
| 1900s | 1,468 | |
| 1910s | 7,339 | |
| 1920s | 11,704 | |
| 1930s | 8,191 | |
| 1940s | 6,161 | |
| 1950s | 4,586 | |
| 1960s | 3,058 | |
| 1970s | 2,213 | |
| 1980s | 1,923 | |
| 1990s | 1,232 | |
| 2000s | 752 | |
| 2010s | 660 | |
| 2020s | 277 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Willis was the 136th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Willis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Albertpeak 1921
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Howellpeak 1920
- Millardpeak 1922
- Louispeak 1921
- Horacepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.