# Willi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/willi/  
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 | 144 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 144 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8 | 3,349 |
| 1962 | 7 | 3,633 |
| 1964 | 9 | 3,044 |
| 1968 | 5 | 4,738 |
| 1970 | 7 | 4,221 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,735 |
| 1978 | 7 | 5,045 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,789 |
| 1987 | 5 | 8,113 |
| 1992 | 7 | 7,388 |
| 1993 | 5 | 10,114 |
| 1996 | 5 | 10,481 |
| 2002 | 5 | 12,426 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14,304 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,481 |

## People named Willi

- Willi Orban, German Hungarian footballer
- Willi Hennig, German biologist (1913–1976)
- Willi Schulz, German footballer
- Willi Holdorf, German athletics competitor (1940-2020)
- Willi Koslowski, German footballer (1937–2024)
- Willi Graf, German military physician and resistance fighter, "White Rose" member (1918–1943)
- Willi Wülbeck, German middle distance runner
- Willi Forst, Austrian actor, singer, director, producer, playwright (1903-1980)
- Willi Apel, German-American musicologist
- Willi Herold, German military personnel and chimney sweep (1925-1946)
- Willi Multhaup, German football manager (1903–1982)
- Willi Hofmann, bobsledder

## 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.