Willow

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Willow is ranked 41st among girls in 2024 (4,653 births). Its best rank was 37th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #41same as 2023
Births in 2024: 4,6530.29% of girls
Peak year: 20215,193 births
Best rank: #37in 2022
Since 1890: 60,285people given the name

Babies named Willow, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

60,285 girls have been named Willow in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 5,193 births — 0.32% of all girls recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 45%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decade	girls named Willow
1890s	5
1900s	40
1910s	111
1920s	252
1930s	208
1940s	175
1950s	138
1960s	139
1970s	502
1980s	345
1990s	1,217
2000s	6,023
2010s	27,063
2020s	24,067

In 2021, its biggest year

Willow was the 39th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Willow

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.