Willona

Last seen for girls in 1979 at #5,427

Peak · girls
1975 · 16 births
Debut · girls
15 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
82
since 1974

Willona over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Willona has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Willona! It came in at #4,041, and was given to 15 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–2025, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Willona is popular in 1976

No state had 5 or more girls named Willona in 1976, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willona
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1979
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1975 at #3,950 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 5 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 91,116
  • Highest: 1 in 91,116 girls born in 1975 were named Willona (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,772 girls born in 1979 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 100.0% of all girls named Willona (82) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s82#3,950 (1975)#4,650

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.

Willona in 1976

girls
#4,614
13 births · 1 in 112,700 girls

Top girls' names in 1976

  1. #1Jennifer59,473
  2. #2Amy31,339
  3. #3Melissa25,094
  4. #4Heather24,192
  5. #5Angela22,038
  6. #6Michelle19,550
  7. #7Kimberly18,962
  8. #8Jessica18,368
  9. #9Lisa17,346
  10. #10Amanda15,588
  11. #4,614Willona13
More about 1976

girls

1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 112,700 of them was named Willona, which outranked 57.7% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willona
  1. #4,363Yara14
  2. #4,363Yetta14
  3. #4,363Yolando14
  4. #4,614Willona13
  5. #4,614Aarin13
  6. #4,614Abena13
  7. #4,614Adora13
  8. #4,905Adrina12
  9. #4,905Afton12
  10. #4,905Ahna12

Tied with 290 names at #4,614; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,548Rhiannon#4,141 → #593
  2. ↑ 3,533Mackenzie#4,370 → #837
  3. ↑ 3,060Khalilah#3,774 → #714
  4. ↑ 1,663Kenisha#2,612 → #949
  5. ↑ 1,455Latoria#2,411 → #956
Fallers
  1. ↓ 821Nyree#926 → #1,747
  2. ↓ 668Syreeta#778 → #1,446
  3. ↓ 505Cher#994 → #1,499
  4. ↓ 398Kandice#957 → #1,355
  5. ↓ 370Racquel#973 → #1,343

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

See the top 100 for 1976 →