Willodene

Last seen for girls in 1942 at #3,444

Peak · girls
1932 · 19 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
241
since 1918

Willodene over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #1,817, 1932girls
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five girls were named Willodene! It came in at #4,291, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1936–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Willodene is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Willodene in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willodene
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1942
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1932 at #1,817 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1934, 2 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 54,920
  • Highest: 1 in 54,920 girls born in 1928 were named Willodene (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 168,840 girls born in 1942 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,817 in 1932, was only 1 in 56,166 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 55.2% of all girls named Willodene (133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s13#3,817 (1919)#4,054
1920s133#1,825 (1929)#3,015
1930s79#1,817 (1932)#3,093
1940s16#3,208 (1940)#3,326

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.

Willodene in 1918

girls
#4,291
6 births · 1 in 192,939 girls

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #4,291Willodene6
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 192,939 of them was named Willodene, which outranked 23.2% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willodene
  1. #3,869Zelna7
  2. #3,869Zenia7
  3. #3,869Zonnie7
  4. #4,291Willodene6
  5. #4,291Abby6
  6. #4,291Adelphia6
  7. #4,291Affie6
  8. #4,809Abie5
  9. #4,809Adalee5
  10. #4,809Addis5

Tied with 517 names at #4,291; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

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

See the top 100 for 1918 →