Willett

At the 2020 census, 12,329 Americans bore the surname Willett — 2,849th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,200.

By the numbers

People: 12,329
Rank: 2,849th
How common: 1 in 24,200
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will, from William.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Willett described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Willett

Michael J. Willett (born 1989)American actor
Danny Willett (born 1987)English professional golfer
William Willett (1856–1915)proponent of British Summer Time
Walter C. Willett (born 1945)American nutritionist

People named Willett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Willett

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.