Willie is a unisex diminutive of the masculine name William. This name comes from the Germanic name Willehelm meaning ‘vehement protector’. Ohter diminutives are Willy, Billy, Bill, and [Billie].
Willie is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
Few children have been named Willie in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 8 out of 100,000 children are currently called Willie. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Willie at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Willie is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Willie is a unisex diminutive of the masculine name William. This name comes from the Germanic name Willehelm meaning ‘vehement protector’. Ohter diminutives are Willy, Billy, Bill, and [Billie].
During the 1920s,... Willie was quite popular for both sexes. In other decades, it was primarily a boy's name.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Willie is a staple in the country: Children have been given the name Willie for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Willie is therefore one of only 910 first names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Willie is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 17 Willie easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for first names and has never been more popular than back in 1910.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Willie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 184 babies were named Willie in the USA in 2022, ranking it #2,388 on the list of the most popular first names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2021, when it was only ranked at #2,547 of all first names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 160 kids were named Willie.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for given names: only 1.1% of all common first names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Willie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.1% of all first names start with a W, all other letters occur on average more than three times as often as the W.
If your name is Willie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Willie, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Willie
Willie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
L
L
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
I
L
L
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Willie sounds like this:
