Willian
Willian reached its high-water mark in 1929 at number 668, and has been recorded 4,092 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 2,100 Willians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Willian boys named Willian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,092
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1929
- Best rank
- 668th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 18 / 4,074
How old the living Willians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,092 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,100 are alive — 51 in every hundred. Roughly 400 of them are children and 630 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Willians
- Willian (born 1988)Brazilian association football player
- Willian Pacho (born 2001)Ecuadorian association football player
- Willian José (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
- Willian Popp (born 1994)Brazilian association football player
- Willian Xavier Barbosa (born 1983)Brazilian association football player
- Willian Arão (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
- Willian Lima (born 2000)Brazilian judoka
- Willian Rocha (born 1989)Brazilian association football player
People named Willian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Willian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Willian is most concentrated in North Carolina (4.0×), Tennessee (2.8×), Pennsylvania (2.4×), New York (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1929
The most popular boys’ names the year Willian peaked:
Willian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Willian | 165 | 1,776th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Willian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 337 men called Willian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Willian | 18 | 0.034 | 2,227 |
| Burgos | Willian | 6 | 0.033 | 1,386 |
| Palmas, Las | Willian | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Navarra | Willian | 10 | 0.030 | 1,773 |
| Pontevedra | Willian | 10 | 0.022 | 1,555 |
| Madrid | Willian | 72 | 0.021 | 2,199 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Willian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.