Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the Old German given name Willihard or its Old English cognate Wilheard.
20062006: 56 births, rank #2,248
2007: 48 births, rank #2,564
2008: 57 births, rank #2,291
2009: 40 births, rank #2,946
2010: 49 births, rank #2,511
20112011: 36 births, rank #3,114
2012: 47 births, rank #2,594
2013: 31 births, rank #3,405
2014: 35 births, rank #3,154
2015: 44 births, rank #2,722
20162016: 47 births, rank #2,626
2017: 55 births, rank #2,345
2018: 50 births, rank #2,546
2019: 46 births, rank #2,736
2020: 44 births, rank #2,759
20212021: 29 births, rank #3,740
2022: 41 births, rank #3,003
2023: 43 births, rank #2,895
2024: 42 births, rank #2,958
20252025: 47 births, rank #2,718
Willard rose from #980 to #961 for boys between 1988 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1915, with 2,889 births.