Will
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#1,195
up +94 places
2025 births
170
up +17 births
All-time births
45,952
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1888
- 707 births
- Best rank
- #25
- in 1882
- First recorded
- 1880
- #27 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1944
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1888707#28Peak
- 1882666#25
- 1884650#28
- 1886642#27
- 1889631#30
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #25 in 1882 · peak births 707 in 1888
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
45,952 boys · 658 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Will has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.