Willy
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#4,041
up +382 places
2025 births
27
up +3 births
All-time births
3,937
1% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1993
- 69 births
- Best rank
- #980
- in 1896
- First recorded
- 1884
- #1,122 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1975
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 121 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 199369#1,406Peak
- 199464#1,494
- 199063#1,419
- 200860#2,236
- 200159#1,889
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #980 in 1896 · peak births 69 in 1993
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
3,937 boys · 116 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 Willy has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.