Willia
Recorded 1882–1989 · United States
Willia was most popular in 1928, when 101 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,280 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,866 people named Willia.
Willia over time
How old is the name Willia?
Willia first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 103 of the 144 years since. It was last recorded in 1989.
How many people are named Willia?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,866 American births named Willia 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 1,309 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Willia in 2025?
Willia 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 Willia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Willia is mostly a girl’s name — 85.8% of the 3,866 Americans given it were girls and 14.2% 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 Willia?
Roughly 1,309 Americans named Willia are alive today — 34% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 65 and 83.
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 Willia 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