Willis

Where Willis comes from

The dictionaries list Willis as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #86 among boys with 166 babies — 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 known Willis turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.