# Ville (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ville/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | 10,851 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,637 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |

## People named Ville

- Ville Valo, Finnish singer
- Ville Ritola, Finnish long distance runner
- Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1977)
- Ville Peltonen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
- Ville Niinistö, Finnish politician (born 1976)
- Ville Pokka, Finnish ice hockey player
- Ville Haapasalo, Finnish actor
- Ville Virtanen, Finnish actor, director and screenwriter
- Ville Räikkönen, Finnish biathlete
- Ville Jalasto, Finnish footballer
- Ville Lajunen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Ville Kantee, Finnish ski jumper

## 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.