Willene
Recorded 1905–1975 · United States
Willene was most popular in 1929, when 97 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,291 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,928 people named Willene.
Willene over time
How old is the name Willene?
Willene first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1905, which makes it about 120 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 66 of the 121 years since. It was last recorded in 1975.
How many people are named Willene?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,928 American births named Willene between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,064 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Willene in 2025?
Willene was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Willene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Willene is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,928 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Willene?
Roughly 1,064 Americans named Willene are alive today — 36% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 70 and 85.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Willene is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
Explore further
See Willene on the interactive charts
About · Privacy · Contact
Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org