Name: Willis

Gender: Male

Usage: Willis is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Willis are in general originating from Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Willis across the world, see William.

Name Meaning of Willis

Meaning: The meaning of the name Willis is: Son of William, Resolute protector.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Willis: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst

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Popularity of the Name

The name Willis is ranked on the 4,253rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.

We estimate that there are at least 75500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Willis has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Willis for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

Name Day Calendar

The name day of Willis is 25 June.

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History and Origin

Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to:

People:

  • Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor
  • Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
  • Willis Carto (born 1926), American far right activist and Holocaust denier
  • Willis Conover (1920–1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
  • Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • Willis Goldbeck (1898–1979), American screenwriter and film director
  • Willis Hall (1929–2005), English playwright and radio and television writer
  • Willis Harman (1918–1997), American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist and writer
  • Willis Hudlin (1906–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904–1970), British technologist and electrical engineer
  • Willis Jackson (saxophonist) (1932–1987), American jazz tenor saxophonist
  • Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist
  • Willis Lamb (1913–2008), American physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Willis Augustus Lee (1888–1945), vice-admiral of the United States Navy and Olympic Games sport shooter
  • Willis McGahee (born 1981), National Football League running back
  • Willis O'Brien (1886–1962), Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
  • Willis Peguese (born 1966), American football player
  • Willis Polk (1867–1924), American architect
  • Willis Reed (born 1942), American retired basketball player, coach and general manager
  • Willis H. Stephens, Sr. (born 1925), American politician
  • Willis Stephens, Jr. (born 1955), American politician, son of the above
  • Willis Ward (1912-1983?), African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge

Fictional characters:

  • Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s U.S. TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
  • Willis family, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
  • Willis (Digimon), in the anime series
  • Willis the Bouncer, a Martian in the novel Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein

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