Willadean

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births

Peak · girls
1933 · 41 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
901
since 1917

Willadean over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Willadean has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201942peak #1,085, 1933girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#11,9327
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1958#6,1035
1957#4,5368
1956#5,9525
1955#4,7407
1954#3,9679
1953#4,5957
1952#3,7969
1951#3,7149
1950#3,6629
1949#4,6736
1948#2,58915
1947#2,53016
1946#2,59714
1945#3,1329
1944#2,28715
1943#1,90021
1942#1,91720
1941#1,95418
1940#2,29713
1939#1,32731
1938#1,50525
1937#1,49325
1936#1,26732
1935#1,44926
1934#1,16637
1933#1,08541
1932#1,34630
1931#1,24334
1930#1,14442
1929#1,33932
1928#1,23938
1927#1,21341
1926#1,18142
1925#1,46631
1924#1,09651
1923#1,55628
1922#2,02719
1921#2,28216
1920#2,73112
1919#3,00510
1918#3,5128
1917#3,3448
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five girls were named Willadean! It came in at #3,344, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1958–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Willadean is popular in 1942

No state had 5 or more girls named Willadean in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willadean
Momentum · girls
Brand new
    Rise & fade · girls
    16 yrs to peak
    • Debuted 1917
    • Peaked 1933 at #1,085 (41 births)
    • Births halved by 1940, 7 yrs later
    Top of the charts · girls
    Never in the top 1,000
    • Top 10: never
    • Top 100: never
    • Top 1,000: never
    Share of babies · girls
    1 in 24,488
    • Highest: 1 in 24,488 girls born in 1924 were named Willadean (0.00%)
    • Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
    • Its best rank, #1,085 in 1933, was only 1 in 24,584 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
    Era · girls
    The 1930s
    • 35.8% of all girls named Willadean (323) were born in this decade
    Show by decade
    DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
    1910s26#3,005 (1919)#3,287
    1920s310#1,096 (1924)#1,613
    1930s323#1,085 (1933)#1,303
    1940s147#1,900 (1943)#2,588
    1950s68#3,662 (1950)#4,563
    1960s6#5,817 (1965)#5,817
    1970s0——
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    2020s21#11,231 (2022)#12,209

    All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

    Willadean in 1942

    girls
    #1,917
    20 births · 1 in 67,536 girls

    Top girls' names in 1942

    1. #1Mary63,256
    2. #2Barbara44,739
    3. #3Patricia39,465
    4. #4Linda31,613
    5. #5Carol30,272
    6. #6Sandra24,994
    7. #7Judith24,792
    8. #8Nancy23,327
    9. #9Betty21,659
    10. #10Carolyn19,978
    11. #1,917Willadean20
    More about 1942

    girls

    1,350,719 girls got a published name in 1942; 1 in 67,536 of them was named Willadean, which outranked 64.4% of the 5,378 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

    Ranked beside Willadean
    1. #1,860Vonna21
    2. #1,860Wayne21
    3. #1,860Wylene21
    4. #1,917Willadean20
    5. #1,917Aimee20
    6. #1,917Alethea20
    7. #1,917Ardyth20
    8. #1,981Alverta19
    9. #1,981Amber19
    10. #1,981Ardeth19

    Tied with 63 names at #1,917; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

    Biggest movers since 1941
    Risers
    1. ↑ 3,567Michal#4,420 → #853
    2. ↑ 1,885Merrily#2,397 → #512
    3. ↑ 1,081Merrilee#1,954 → #873
    4. ↑ 783Jerrilyn#1,610 → #827
    5. ↑ 760Candace#1,418 → #658
    Fallers
    1. ↓ 354Rebekah#924 → #1,278
    2. ↓ 350Leatha#830 → #1,180
    3. ↓ 307Nella#993 → #1,300
    4. ↓ 272Arla#934 → #1,206
    5. ↓ 262Vivien#735 → #997

    Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

    See the top 100 for 1942 →