Willam

Where Willam comes from

Willam hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #505 among boys with 13 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #884.
  3. 1902
    Willam Christensen born
    American ballet dancer
  4. 1982
    Willam Belli born
    American actor and drag queen
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Willam Belli · American actor and drag queen, born 1982
  • Willam Christensen · American ballet dancer, 1902–2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.