Willaim
Willaim is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 951st, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198734 births
- Best rank
- #951in 1892
- Since 1882
- 1,597people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,597 boys have been named Willaim in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 34 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 34 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1980s alone account for 16%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Willaim | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 106 | |
| 1920s | 179 | |
| 1930s | 121 | |
| 1940s | 131 | |
| 1950s | 173 | |
| 1960s | 214 | |
| 1970s | 188 | |
| 1980s | 251 | |
| 1990s | 118 | |
| 2000s | 66 | |
| 2010s | 32 |
In 1987, its biggest year
Willaim was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1987 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Willaim
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stantonpeak 1954
- Ruebenpeak 1921
- Anastaciopeak 1924
- Florenciopeak 1924
- Nevillepeak 1975
- Laroypeak 1989
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Joesphpeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.