Willliam
#10,614 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Willliam has been given to 273 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #10,614 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Willliam, 2025
1 in 474,000
Willliam over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Willliam?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,614
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Willliam sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willliam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Willliams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Willliam was born before 1997 — so the typical Willliam is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 23.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Willliam 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
- 58.3%
- Peak was 2006 (12)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Willliam
Willliam is not the most common spelling — William is, with 99.6% against Willliam'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.
Willliam around the world
Where Willliam 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 & Wales2001–2001#3,134in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Willliam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Willliam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Willliam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.