Willaim
Willaim was last recorded in 2018, when 10 babies were given it; 1,597 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Willaim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Willaim?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,119, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1987, the peak
Willaim peaked in 1987, when 34 boys were given it, #1,891 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 10 | #8,119 | 5.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,936 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #12,027 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,210 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #14,152 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,950 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,473 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,862 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,405 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,504 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 | #7,016 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,196 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,290 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,106 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,074 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,105 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,108 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,277 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,982 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,989 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,621 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,960 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,143 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,358 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,891 | 18.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,594 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 29 | #2,016 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,361 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,574 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,163 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,494 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,365 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,234 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,373 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,906 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,596 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,359 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,546 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,215 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,417 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,984 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,613 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,971 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,960 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,903 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,755 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,555 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,791 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,691 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,753 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,633 | 11.8 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,770 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,705 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,590 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,834 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,763 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,680 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,758 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,097 | 7.6 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,901 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,575 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,449 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,781 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,856 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,808 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,128 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,192 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,176 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,944 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,632 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,982 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,635 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,859 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,901 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,448 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,242 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,388 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,732 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,096 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,999 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,959 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,730 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,643 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,793 | 17.7 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,073 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,800 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,130 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,498 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,239 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,827 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,959 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,058 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,069 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,981 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,845 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,176 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,252 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,806 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,531 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,991 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,832 | 25.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,244 | 45.1 |
| 1892 | 7 | #950 | 57.4 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,092 | 44.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Willaim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Willaim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Willaim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Willaim, and how old are they?
An estimated 974 Americans named Willaim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 38 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,429 people named Willaim (2 women and girls, 2,427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,225,638 babies since 1880, Willaim is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 10,628 babies recorded by SSA was a Willaim (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Willaim
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 Willaim and names like it
- Compare Willaim and WilliamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sWillaim peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Willaim since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Willaim.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Willaim alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with WMost given first.