Willie

Where Willie comes from

From Will + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Willie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #34 among boys — 476 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #11
    2,897 babies named Willie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1931
    Willie Mays born
    American baseball player
  4. 1933
    Willie Nelson born
    American country musician
  5. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #191.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name William.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
Namesakes
  • Willie Nelson · American country musician, born 1933
  • Willie Mays · American baseball player, 1931–2024
  • Willie Garson · American actor, 1964–2021
  • Willie Aames · American actor, film and television director, born 1960
  • Willie Davenport · American athletics competitor, 1943–2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.