Willoughby
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to boys 71.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1923 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 223since 1915
Willoughby over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | — | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | — | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
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| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
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| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #2,123 | 15 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,231 | 14 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Willoughby! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Willoughby is popular in 1928
No state had 5 or more boys named Willoughby in 1928, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Willoughby
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1923 at #2,123 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 73,073 boys born in 1923 were named Willoughby (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 36.8% of all boys named Willoughby (82) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2018, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 32 | #2,732 (1917) | #3,507 |
| 1920s | 82 | #2,123 (1923) | #3,053 |
| 1930s | 29 | #3,095 (1931) | #3,470 |
| 1940s | 23 | #2,872 (1941) | #3,220 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,679 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 34 | #8,767 (2011) | #9,935 |
| 2020s | 12 | #9,714 (2021) | #11,032 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Willoughby in 1928
Top boys' names in 1928
More about 1928
boys
1,107,613 boys got a published name in 1928; 1 in 138,452 of them was named Willoughby, which outranked 34.9% of the 4,723 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,843Winfrey9
- #2,843Zeke9
- #2,843Zell9
- #3,076Willoughby8
- #3,076Achille8
- #3,076Adair8
- #3,076Admiral8
- #3,357Abundio7
- #3,357Agostino7
- #3,357Aldean7
Tied with 280 names at #3,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.