How Many People Are Named Willam?

1,451

people named Willam are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 235,551 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,516 babies named Willam in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,315

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#3,085

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Peak Year

1959

76 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Willam in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Willam alive today is about 61 years old, and 63% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 73 in 2025.

Under 30 130
9%
30 to 59 406
28%
60 and over 915
63.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Willam first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1959, to 76 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Willam has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #525, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,793.

Boys
Rank in 2025#13,793
Best rank#525 (1880)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#924 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Willam alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Willam were born in California than in any other state: about 39 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Willam was given 6.6 times as often in Tennessee, 2.4 times in Texas and 2 times in California.

California 39
Ohio 26
Texas 19
Tennessee 18
Illinois 17
New York 17
North Carolina 15
Georgia 12
Kentucky 7
Alabama 6
Florida 5
Pennsylvania 4
Maryland 3
Mississippi 3
South Carolina 2
Michigan 1

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