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The name Will is a diminutive form of William. The table below indicates the number of times the name Will has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Will**
Use of the Name Will for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
39,477	12,655	7,375	3,682	2,109	873	441

The table below indicates the number of times the name Will has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Will**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	27	588
1881	26	550	737	7
1882	25	666	809	7
1883	29	576
1884	28	650
1885	27	624
1886	27	642
1887	30	561	859	9
1888	28	707
1889	30	631
1890	30	613
1891	34	520
1892	34	607
1893	37	539
1894	39	559
1895	44	485
1896	45	507
1897	44	492
1898	49	474
1899	48	414
1900	43	603
1901	53	364
1902	64	359
1903	75	293
1904	81	287
1905	86	286
1906	92	252
1907	97	260
1908	96	274
1909	99	268
1910	114	276
1911	147	230
1912	214	256
1913	222	281
1914	240	319
1915	251	361
1916	265	360
1917	282	339
1918	280	364
1919	274	371
1920	294	372
1921	291	372
1922	304	354
1923	291	371
1924	305	354
1925	299	369
1926	311	333
1927	332	299
1928	310	325
1929	335	276
1930	353	260
1931	368	232
1932	358	242
1933	362	222
1934	371	215
1935	311	306
1936	353	235
1937	356	228
1938	370	232
1939	377	226
1940	393	212
1941	386	223
1942	415	221
1943	441	204
1944	397	235
1945	430	191
1946	442	206
1947	464	211
1948	436	235
1949	452	217
1950	445	224
1951	488	194
1952	485	210
1953	495	200
1954	502	208
1955	580	160
1956	549	190
1957	522	220
1958	572	183
1959	548	204
1960	527	226
1961	531	223
1962	557	202
1963	517	241
1964	509	236
1965	547	196
1966	532	204
1967	586	167
1968	521	213
1969	566	192
1970	534	228
1971	563	208
1972	587	185
1973	543	208
1974	535	223
1975	536	224
1976	542	221
1977	558	224
1978	548	230
1979	509	272
1980	519	270
1981	560	232
1982	527	261
1983	565	223
1984	594	204
1985	616	201
1986	628	203
1987	594	233
1988	610	240
1989	589	276
1990	589	290
1991	593	295
1992	653	252
1993	633	267
1994	660	246
1995	639	265
1996	621	280
1997	634	268
1998	577	339
1999	505	421
2000	510	446
2001	549	388
2002	549	402
2003	534	432
2004	529	441
Totals:		39,477		23

During the last 125 years, parents have used Will as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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