Willean

Last seen for girls in 1963 at #6,592

Peak · girls
1938 · 14 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
259
since 1919

Willean over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Willean has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #2,225, 1938girls
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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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1963#6,5925
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1955#5,2086
1954#5,7535
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1949#3,8928
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1947#3,7069
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1936#2,8579
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First appearance
1919

The first year at least five girls were named Willean! It came in at #4,814, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1925, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Willean is popular in 1919

No state had 5 or more girls named Willean in 1919, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willean
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1963
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1919
  • Peaked 1938 at #2,225 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1941, 3 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 78,818
  • Highest: 1 in 78,818 girls born in 1938 were named Willean (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 385,501 girls born in 1963 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1940s
  • 32.0% of all girls named Willean (83) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,814 (1919)#4,814
1920s34#2,768 (1928)#3,568
1930s79#2,225 (1938)#2,866
1940s83#2,416 (1942)#3,648
1950s53#2,652 (1950)#4,684
1960s5#6,592 (1963)#6,592

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.

Willean in 1919

girls
#4,814
5 births · 1 in 226,023 girls

Top girls' names in 1919

  1. #1Mary65,836
  2. #2Helen33,706
  3. #3Dorothy31,733
  4. #4Margaret26,238
  5. #5Ruth24,562
  6. #6Mildred17,300
  7. #7Virginia15,636
  8. #8Elizabeth15,287
  9. #9Frances15,106
  10. #10Anna14,498
  11. #4,814Willean5
More about 1919

girls

1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 226,023 of them was named Willean, which outranked 13.4% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willean
  1. #4,251Zephyr6
  2. #4,251Zilda6
  3. #4,251Zorka6
  4. #4,814Willean5
  5. #4,814Abie5
  6. #4,814Adamae5
  7. #4,814Adie5

Tied with 745 names at #4,814; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. ↑ 851Gregoria#1,805 → #954
  2. ↑ 443Concha#1,333 → #890
  3. ↑ 390Arlena#1,299 → #909
  4. ↑ 353Marina#1,255 → #902
  5. ↑ 333Roselle#1,333 → #1,000
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,019Liberty#585 → #1,604
  2. ↓ 840Victory#809 → #1,649
  3. ↓ 567Karen#960 → #1,527
  4. ↓ 404Zena#989 → #1,393
  5. ↓ 359Malvina#989 → #1,348

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

See the top 100 for 1919 →