Willa

See also: willa and willą

English

Etymology

American 19th-century coinage based on Wilhelmina and the male given names Will and William.

Proper noun

Willa

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 1974, Bernice Slote, Virginia Faulkner, The Art of Willa Cather, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, →ISBN, page 198:
      Even though Miss Cather's father clearly wrote that Willa was named after our "little sister", Miss Lewis' text reads: "They named Willa after ... William Lee Boak, who was killed in the Civil War".
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