Willliam
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1958 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 273since 1922
Willliam over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Willliam has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
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| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
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| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
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First appearance
1922
The first year at least five boys were named Willliam! It came in at #3,532, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Willliam is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Willliam in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Willliam
Momentum · boys
Brand new
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1958 at #3,275 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 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 155,451
- Highest: 1 in 155,451 boys born in 1922 were named Willliam (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,275 in 1958, was only 1 in 303,201 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 23.8% of all boys named Willliam (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | #3,532 (1922) | #3,532 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,505 (1941) | #3,505 |
| 1950s | 12 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,537 |
| 1960s | 24 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,743 |
| 1970s | 15 | #3,658 (1971) | #3,984 |
| 1980s | 41 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,459 |
| 1990s | 46 | #6,618 (1997) | #7,495 |
| 2000s | 65 | #6,460 (2006) | #9,946 |
| 2010s | 45 | #7,559 (2012) | #10,759 |
| 2020s | 13 | #9,714 (2025) | #10,257 |
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.
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