Willis

Where Willis comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Willis.

  • 2 syllables
Willis through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #86 among boys with 166 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,481.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Willis in Wikidata.

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.