Willow

Where Willow comes from

From willow.
— Wiktionary's entry for Willow
  • English
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,338 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Willow Shields born
    American actress
  3. 2000
    Willow Smith born
    American singer-songwriter and actress
  4. 2022
    Peak, #37
    5,072 babies named Willow — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Willow Smith · American singer-songwriter and actress, born 2000
  • Willow Shields · American actress, born 2000
  • Willow Pill · American drag queen, born 1995
  • Willow Bay · American television journalist, editor, author, and former model, born 1963
  • Willow Johnson · Canadian voice actress, born 1977

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.