Meaning not yet researched.
Willy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #980 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #980 in 1896; #4,041 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Willy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,041 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #980.
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Willy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #980 in 1896 · most boys in one year: 69 (1993).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Willy, making it the 4,041st most common boys’ name of the year, up 382 places from #4,423 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 24 boys named Willy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #980, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 69, in 1993. For comparison, it was #3,680 in 2015 and #1,392 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Willy in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 4,053 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 535 babies named Willy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 290 US boys were named Willy; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Willie (596,385 babies since 1880), Wiley (18,794 babies since 1880) and Willia (3,866 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Willy in the open dataset we use.
Willy is listed as a nickname for Wilbur, William, Willis, Wilson.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #4,041 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,423 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,056 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,686 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,733 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,070 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,051 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,101 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,089 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,680 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,229 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,996 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,768 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,902 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,784 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,621 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,236 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,562 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,575 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,431 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,374 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,235 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,292 |
| 2001 | — | — | 59 | #1,889 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,084 |
| 1999 | — | — | 55 | #1,823 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,233 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,163 |
| 1996 | — | — | 47 | #1,932 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,838 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,494 |
| 1993 | — | — | 69 | #1,406 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,748 |
| 1991 | — | — | 58 | #1,527 |
| 1990 | — | — | 63 | #1,419 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,067 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,847 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,533 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,693 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,568 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,628 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,820 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,593 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,478 |
| 1980 | — | — | 34 | #1,724 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,630 |
| 1978 | — | — | 56 | #1,202 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,475 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,539 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,628 |
| 1974 | — | — | 40 | #1,369 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,407 | 48 | #1,200 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,647 |
| 1971 | — | — | 29 | #1,666 |
| 1970 | — | — | 33 | #1,492 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,566 |
| 1968 | — | — | 40 | #1,216 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,539 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,372 |
| 1965 | — | — | 47 | #1,092 |
| 1964 | — | — | 40 | #1,235 |
| 1963 | — | — | 46 | #1,150 |
| 1962 | — | — | 57 | #1,023 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,517 | 52 | #1,096 |
| 1960 | — | — | 52 | #1,082 |
| 1959 | — | — | 47 | #1,140 |
| 1958 | — | — | 43 | #1,184 |
| 1957 | — | — | 39 | #1,266 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,479 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,717 | 26 | #1,537 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,607 | 30 | #1,407 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,356 |
| 1952 | — | — | 20 | #1,748 |
| 1951 | — | — | 32 | #1,330 |
| 1950 | — | — | 28 | #1,392 |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,048 | 22 | #1,615 |
| 1948 | — | — | 39 | #1,159 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,700 | 27 | #1,447 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,556 |
| 1945 | — | — | 29 | #1,248 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,682 | 31 | #1,210 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,486 | 33 | #1,213 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,365 | 24 | #1,465 |
| 1941 | — | — | 28 | #1,275 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,337 | 27 | #1,310 |
| 1939 | — | — | 24 | #1,389 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,475 |
| 1937 | — | — | 28 | #1,287 |
| 1936 | — | — | 25 | #1,355 |
| 1935 | — | — | 24 | #1,420 |
| 1934 | — | — | 24 | #1,422 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,742 | 23 | #1,454 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,081 | 19 | #1,712 |
| 1931 | — | — | 26 | #1,391 |
| 1930 | — | — | 28 | #1,398 |
| 1929 | — | — | 22 | #1,607 |
| 1928 | — | — | 23 | #1,608 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,278 | 18 | #1,956 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,296 | 21 | #1,716 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,803 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,838 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,724 | 17 | #2,019 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,038 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,374 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,747 | 24 | #1,590 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,879 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,393 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,983 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,147 | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,875 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,186 | 12 | #1,974 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,176 | 6 | #2,810 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,741 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,531 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,586 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,111 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #1,001 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,314 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #980 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,122 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).