# Guillaume (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/guillaume/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 342 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 342 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 128, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French. Doublet of Guillermo, William, and Wilhelm, etc.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | 9,515 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,117 |
| 2002 | 7 | 8,778 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,017 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,265 |
| 2005 | 12 | 6,364 |
| 2006 | 6 | 11,124 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,428 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,283 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,091 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,964 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,081 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,028 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,885 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,406 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 2,254 |
| 2003 | 9 | 1,629 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2,070 |
| 2005 | 9 | 1,851 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Guillaume

- Guillaume Dufay, composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
- Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French noble and mathematician (*1661 – †1704)
- Guillaume Canet, French actor, film director, and screenwriter (born 1973)
- Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (1971-2008)
- Guillaume Budé, French scholar, humanist and administrator (1467-1540)
- Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer (born 1984)
- Guillaume Musso, French writer
- Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune, French diplomat (1763-1815)
- Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (1713-1796)
- Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer
- Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (1851–1932)
- Guillaume de Lorris, French scholar and poet from Lorris (1200–1238)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.