Girl Names That Start With W

Girl names that start with W in the 2025 data

W is the twenty-first most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 17,364 of them, 1.1% of every girl in the file. It has climbed from twenty-third place a decade ago, and its share has grown from 0.4% to 1.1%.

This list holds the 19 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Willow, #44 with 4,763 girls in 2025. 1 of the 19 are in this year's top 100, and 17 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Two other names starting with W are left out — William and Willie. Each reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 13,444 of those 17,364 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Wrenley, up from #6,721 in 2015 to #158 in 2025. The shortest name here is Wren at 4 letters, the longest Wilhelmina at 10.