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Willodean

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Willodean is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 830th, in 1928.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192876 births
Best rank
#830in 1928
Since 1914
1,237people given the name
Babies named Willodean, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,237 girls have been named Willodean in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 76 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 76 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 39%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Willodean
1910s84
1920s481
1930s444
1940s173
1950s55

In 1928, its biggest year

Willodean was the 830th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.

Names that rose and fell with Willodean

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.