Willette
Recorded 1899–2005 · United States
Willette was most popular in 1965, when 62 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,254 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,123 people named Willette.
Willette over time
How old is the name Willette?
Willette first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1899, which makes it about 126 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 91 of the 127 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Willette?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,123 American births named Willette 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 1,352 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Willette in 2025?
Willette 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 Willette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Willette is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,123 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 Willette?
Roughly 1,352 Americans named Willette are alive today — 64% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 55 and 71.
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 Willette is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org