Wm
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wm has been given to 2,736 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Wm, 1992
1 in 640,000
Wm 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Wm?
Wm had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 333,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,542 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wm sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wm. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wms were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wm was born before 1921 — so the typical Wm is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 687
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (588).
Is Wm 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 1916 (85)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.1% average annual change
Where Wm is used
Across 1910–2025, Wm was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 245,631 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3Indiana1 in 100,000
- 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 5Ohio1 in 100,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wm has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Wm by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names with a curve like Wm
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Wm, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Wm
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.