Willoughby

Where Willoughby comes from

From Old English weliġ (“willow”) and Old Norse byr (“settlement”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Willoughby
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,825 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Peak, #2,123
    15 babies named Willoughby — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1924
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2019
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

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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.