Name meaning & stats
Willa
Willa (Germanic origin). 19,266 US babies since 1940, peak 2019.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Germanic
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2019
19,266 US babies were named Willa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Willa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
- Willa 93%
- Willia 7%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2019)