Wiliam
Recorded for boysGen X2025 rank
#6,783
up +26 places
2025 births
13
unchanged births
All-time births
1,256
1% of them in 2025
More common than
90%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1982
- 28 births
- Best rank
- #992
- in 1881
- First recorded
- 1881
- #992 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1975
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 110 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 198228#1,998Peak
- 198525#2,225
- 198625#2,285
- 198723#2,466
- 197121#2,049
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #992 in 1881 · peak births 28 in 1982
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Wiliam has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.