Will Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Will: every year it appeared on the national list since 1880, with 45,952 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

45,952

Peak year

1888 #28

Years on the list

146

10-year trend

-26.8%

In the 1880s ·

Popularity history

1880–2025

Year	Births	Rank
2011	357	#664
2012	352	#674
2013	315	#741
2014	313	#755
2015	270	#835
2016	277	#825
2017	239	#900
2018	242	#897
2019	217	#983
2020	235	#941
2021	200	#1070
2022	178	#1162
2023	185	#1139
2024	153	#1289
2025	170	#1195

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1888

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

Names from the same era

Grover · 1884 Garfield · 1881 Dewey · 1898 Willard · 1915 Jess · 1915 Anton · 1915 Orrin · 1915 Waldo · 1915 Gustave · 1915 Hugh · 1916

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