Wilian
Wilian was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,613 among boys’ names; 237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wilian?
#10,613 among boys’ names, 2025
Wilian fell from #10,575 in 2015 to #10,613 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 4.1 per million.
10 babies in 2007, the peak
Wilian peaked in 2007, when 10 boys were given it, #8,137 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,613 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,263 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,220 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,776 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,785 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,507 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,176 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,690 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #14,088 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,575 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,584 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,110 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #8,036 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,138 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,819 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,980 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,137 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,682 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,061 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,883 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,536 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,611 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,302 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #12,057 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,105 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,591 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,249 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,967 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,825 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,075 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,181 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilian, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Wilian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 838 people named Wilian (6 women and girls, 832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Wilian?
Wilian is a less common spelling of Willian: SSA has recorded 237 Wilian and 4,092 Willian since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,649 babies since 1880, Wilian is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 41 babies (17%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wilian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Wilian and names like it
- Compare Wilian and WillianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sWilian peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Wilian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Wilian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with WMost given first.