List of Beautiful Girl’s Forgotten First Names That Truly Deserve A Comeback

49. Willa


Willa is a beautiful name for a baby girl to be given in German. Willa, the feminine form of William, has two meanings: the first is “will or desire” and the second is “helmet or protection”.

It is not a coincidence that Willa is a form of William. Willa could be considered a diminutive of Wilhelmina because Wilhelmina was initially reduced to “Willa”. As with William, the most common form of the name Willa is Will. Since the 1960s, this name has been experiencing a gradual decline in popularity, a trend that continued for about half a century before it began to experience a significant uptick in popularity around 2010.

The number of celebrities who have chosen to give their daughters the name Willa has contributed to its rise in popularity. Some of our favorite celebrity couples are Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, but others include Keri Russell and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are among our favorite celebrity couples.

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