Willem
#2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 122 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,840since 1916
Willem over time
Rank among boys' names. Willem has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,572 | 51 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,575 | 51 |
| 2022 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,264 | 60 |
| 2019 | #1,938 | 76 |
| 2018 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #2,028 | 70 |
| 2015 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 74 |
| 2010 | #1,778 | 83 |
| 2009 | #1,975 | 71 |
| 2008 | #1,603 | 98 |
| 2007 | #1,509 | 105 |
| 2006 | #1,479 | 103 |
| 2005 | #1,390 | 107 |
| 2004 | #1,316 | 112 |
| 2003 | #1,205 | 122 |
| 2002 | #1,244 | 109 |
| 2001 | #1,527 | 79 |
| 2000 | #1,334 | 96 |
| 1999 | #1,503 | 75 |
| 1998 | #1,558 | 68 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #1,933 | 46 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,007 | 40 |
| 1992 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #2,154 | 32 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | — | |
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| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
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| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Willem! It came in at #2,926, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Willem is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,043 · 1 in 10,158
- Michigan#1,064 · 1 in 8,806
- New York#1,577 · 1 in 15,591
Best ever in a state: #387 in Connecticut, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,043 | 20 | 1 in 10,158 |
| Michigan | #1,064 | 5 | 1 in 8,806 |
| New York | #1,577 | 6 | 1 in 15,591 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Willem
- 65 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,572)
- 308 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #2,572)
- 486 spots since 2015 (#2,086 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2003 at #1,205 (122 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,191 boys born in 2003 were named Willem (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.3% of all boys named Willem (1,002) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #2,926 (1916) | #2,926 |
| 1920s | 18 | #3,151 (1927) | #3,927 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,776 (1932) | #3,776 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,505 (1941) | #3,505 |
| 1950s | 30 | #2,818 (1958) | #3,136 |
| 1960s | 71 | #2,611 (1967) | #3,385 |
| 1970s | 62 | #2,973 (1971) | #4,326 |
| 1980s | 112 | #2,154 (1989) | #4,247 |
| 1990s | 443 | #1,503 (1999) | #2,052 |
| 2000s | 1,002 | #1,205 (2003) | #1,458 |
| 2010s | 743 | #1,709 (2013) | #1,948 |
| 2020s | 341 | #1,982 (2021) | #2,425 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Willem in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 23,608 of them was named Willem, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,917Yazan77
- #1,917Yousif77
- #1,917Zacari77
- #1,938Willem76
- #1,938Ahaan76
- #1,938Arnav76
- #1,938Benji76
- #1,954Abdullahi75
- #1,954Agastya75
- #1,954Austyn75
Tied with 15 names at #1,938; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.