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How popular is the name Willa?
Births per year, rank history and how many Willas are alive today.
Willa (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 705th in 2025 with 52 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2024, when 57 babies were given the name, the 670th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade.
The Willa you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Willas born in England and Wales are between 4 and 14, and there are at least 650 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Willa - on average, only one in every 485 such rooms contains a Willa.
How many babies are named Willa each year?
Where does Willa rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Willa most popular?
Willa peaked in 2024, when 57 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Willa?
At least 650 people named Willa born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Willa?
Most living Willas are between 4 and 14; the most common age is about 2.
Is Willa becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.