Willim

Last seen for boys in 1988 at #7,270

Peak · boys
1934 · 12 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
257
since 1915

Willim over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Willim has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #2,121, 1934boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1988#7,2705
1987#3,95911
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1973#4,0547
1972#3,9637
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1970#4,7245
1969#3,9356
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1967#3,5596
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1964#3,6016
1963#3,6466
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1961#3,6526
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1927#3,7806
1926#3,7086
1925#4,1975
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1919#3,7366
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Willim! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Willim is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more boys named Willim in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Willim
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1988
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1934 at #2,121 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1935, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 86,050
  • Highest: 1 in 86,050 boys born in 1934 were named Willim (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 382,857 boys born in 1988 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 18.7% of all boys named Willim (48) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s16#3,736 (1919)#3,913
1920s48#2,986 (1921)#3,523
1930s37#2,121 (1934)#3,069
1940s24#2,862 (1944)#3,215
1950s42#3,021 (1950)#3,519
1960s45#2,735 (1968)#3,595
1970s24#3,963 (1972)#4,628
1980s21#3,959 (1987)#5,848

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.

Willim in 1915

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#3,825
5 births · 1 in 169,715 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #3,825Willim5
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 169,715 of them was named Willim, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Willim
  1. #3,392Yaro6
  2. #3,392Zebedee6
  3. #3,392Zolton6
  4. #3,825Willim5
  5. #3,825Abb5
  6. #3,825Abert5
  7. #3,825Abran5

Tied with 565 names at #3,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 691Eston#1,687 → #996
  2. ↑ 565Estill#1,545 → #980
  3. ↑ 545Garth#1,260 → #715
  4. ↑ 474Hiroshi#1,342 → #868
  5. ↑ 439Domingo#1,101 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 674Gilmore#986 → #1,660
  2. ↓ 667Barnett#933 → #1,600
  3. ↓ 526Rose#884 → #1,410
  4. ↓ 517Toivo#855 → #1,372
  5. ↓ 461Sampson#949 → #1,410

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915 →