Willys

Last seen for boys in 1934 at #3,277

Peak · boys
1924 · 14 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
103
since 1915

Willys over time

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Rank among boys' names. Willys has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #2,229, 1924boys
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Willys! It came in at #3,082, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Willys is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more boys named Willys in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willys
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1934
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1924 at #2,229 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1925, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 80,910
  • Highest: 1 in 80,910 boys born in 1924 were named Willys (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 172,099 boys born in 1934 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 61.2% of all boys named Willys (63) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s34#2,423 (1917)#2,890
1920s63#2,229 (1924)#3,604
1930s6#3,277 (1934)#3,277

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.

Willys in 1915

boys
#3,082
7 births · 1 in 121,225 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #3,082Willys7
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 121,225 of them was named Willys, which outranked 29.8% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willys
  1. #2,829Yancey8
  2. #2,829Yasuo8
  3. #2,829Zell8
  4. #3,082Willys7
  5. #3,082Aage7
  6. #3,082Abelino7
  7. #3,082Acy7
  8. #3,392Acey6
  9. #3,392Adair6
  10. #3,392Agustus6

Tied with 309 names at #3,082; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 691Eston#1,687 → #996
  2. ↑ 565Estill#1,545 → #980
  3. ↑ 545Garth#1,260 → #715
  4. ↑ 474Hiroshi#1,342 → #868
  5. ↑ 439Domingo#1,101 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 674Gilmore#986 → #1,660
  2. ↓ 667Barnett#933 → #1,600
  3. ↓ 526Rose#884 → #1,410
  4. ↓ 517Toivo#855 → #1,372
  5. ↓ 461Sampson#949 → #1,410

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

See the top 100 for 1915 →