# Wilhelmus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilhelmus/  
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 | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Wilhelmus

- Wilhelmus de Bekker, Dutch-born Surinamese Roman Catholic bishop
- Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus, Dutch academic (1880-1960)
- Wilhelmus à Brakel, Dutch theologian (1635-1711)
- Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen, Dutch bishop
- Wilhelmus Demarteau, Dutch Catholic bishop (1917–2012)
- Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans, Dutch university professor and botanist (1878-1957)
- Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
- Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (1948–2002)
- Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer (1945-2020)
- Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (1876–1956)
- Willem 's Gravesande, Dutch physicist
- Peter Nottet, Dutch speed skater

## 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.