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Ville

Boys' name

Diminutive of Vilhelm

Ville has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2007. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ville, 2010

1 in 462,000

Ville over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ville: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Vilhelm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ville means

Ville is a diminutive of Vilhelm.

Origin, language, and formation

Ville is used in Estonian, Finnish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vilhelm and Villiam.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Ville is pronounced /ˈʋilːe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Ville between 2007 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2010; its best national rank was #9,630 in 2010.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ville?

Ville had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 462,000
8 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ville sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 320,229 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ville. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Villes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ville was born before 2010 — so the typical Ville is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Ville rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (8)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,630
2010

Spellings of Ville

Ville is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 38.9% against Ville's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ville around the world

Where Ville ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ville by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,630
2010
Peak year
2010
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ville

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ville

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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