Willard
#2,718 in the US in 2025
Willard in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Willard in New Zealand
Willard never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #154 | 88 |
| 1890 | #159 | 89 |
| 1900 | #132 | 172 |
| 1910 | #119 | 265 |
| 1920 | #88 | 2,089 |
| 1930 | #117 | 1,537 |
| 1940 | #151 | 1,140 |
| 1950 | #219 | 841 |
| 1960 | #333 | 543 |
| 1970 | #434 | 350 |
| 1980 | #678 | 164 |
| 1990 | #1,129 | 91 |
| 2000 | #1,799 | 60 |
| 2010 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2020 | #2,759 | 44 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Willard most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 4,295 |
| Ohio | 3,924 |
| Illinois | 3,762 |
| Kentucky | 3,485 |
| New York | 3,005 |
| North Carolina | 2,946 |
| Michigan | 2,794 |
| Tennessee | 2,719 |
| Texas | 2,680 |
| Missouri | 2,564 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026