Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Willard

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Willard
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 98.6% from peak

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

2,889

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

98.6%

2024

All-time

77,607

Willard once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1915, when 2,889 boys were named Willard.

In 2024, only 41 boys were given the name.

Down 98.6% from its peak.

All told, about 77,607 Americans have been named Willard and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 98.6% from peak

19152,889 boys named Willard

202441 boys named Willard

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