# Wil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wil/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,094 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,094 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 316, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,931 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,978 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,160 |
| 2014 | 12 | 7,027 |
| 2015 | 19 | 5,050 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5,116 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,652 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,695 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,179 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,547 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,648 |
| 2022 | 12 | 7,233 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,169 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,867 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,797 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 12 | 1,852 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Wil

- Wil Trapp, American soccer player (born 1993)
- Wil Traval, Australian actor
- Wil Myers, American baseball player
- Wil Johnson, English actor
- Wil Hartog, Dutch motorcycle racer
- Wil Albeda, Dutch politician (1925–2014)
- Wil Horneff, American actor

## 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.