# Willem (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/willem/  
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 | 2,840 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,840 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 533, 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 | 74 | 1,902 |
| 2012 | 82 | 1,814 |
| 2013 | 86 | 1,724 |
| 2014 | 87 | 1,750 |
| 2015 | 67 | 2,108 |
| 2016 | 70 | 2,045 |
| 2017 | 56 | 2,343 |
| 2018 | 62 | 2,229 |
| 2019 | 76 | 1,951 |
| 2020 | 60 | 2,289 |
| 2021 | 75 | 1,997 |
| 2022 | 54 | 2,561 |
| 2023 | 51 | 2,608 |
| 2024 | 50 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 51 | 2,601 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,124 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,462 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Willem

- Willem Barents, Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
- Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist
- Willem Drees, Dutch politician (1886–1988)
- Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)
- Willem de Sitter, Dutch cosmologist (*1872 – †1934)
- Willem Janszoon, Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)
- Willem Schouten, Dutch explorer
- Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer
- Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (1921–1995)
- Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (1871-1951)
- Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch painter (1633-1707)
- Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (1882–1960)

## 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.