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In 2024, 729 girls in the United States were named Willa, making it the 423rd most popular girl's name that year.
It has climbed sharply, from 551st a decade earlier.
Its busiest year on record was 2019, with 889 births.
Records for Willa go back to 1880, and 32,101 babies have been given the name since.
A feminine form of William meaning "resolute protection". Its vintage charm and literary connections have a thoughtful, gentle quality. Carries literary connections through author Willa Cather.
Willa is of Germanic origin, described as literary and vintage in style.
In 2024 the name was recorded only for girls — 729 of them, with no births of the other sex frequent enough to appear in the data.
Each of these is a name in its own right in the 2024 US data, given to at least 100 babies that year.
Names of the same origin for a brother, most common first.
A feminine form of William meaning "resolute protection". Its vintage charm and literary connections have a thoughtful, gentle quality.
Willa is of Germanic origin, and is usually described as literary and vintage in style.
In 2024, 729 girls in the United States were named Willa, making it the 423rd most popular girl's name that year.
In 2024 the name was recorded only for girls — 729 of them, with no births of the other sex frequent enough to appear in the data.
Will is a shorter name in current US use that share the opening of Willa.