Meaning not yet researched.
Willem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,208 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,208 in 2003; #2,601 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Willem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,601 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,208.
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Willem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,208 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 122 (2003).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Willem, making it the 2,601st most common boys’ name of the year, up 70 places from #2,671 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 50 boys named Willem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,208, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 122. For comparison, it was #2,108 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Willem in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 8 babies. In all, 2,840 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,002 babies named Willem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 605 US boys were named Willem; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Willem ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,195 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include William (4,215,725 babies since 1880), Bill (161,190 babies since 1880), Will (46,610 babies since 1880) and Guillermo (32,148 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wilhem are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wilhem (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Willem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,195 | #2,919 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,926 | #2,719 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,601 |
| 2024 | — | — | 50 | #2,671 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,608 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,561 |
| 2021 | — | — | 75 | #1,997 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,289 |
| 2019 | — | — | 76 | #1,951 |
| 2018 | — | — | 62 | #2,229 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,343 |
| 2016 | — | — | 70 | #2,045 |
| 2015 | — | — | 67 | #2,108 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,750 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,724 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,814 |
| 2011 | — | — | 74 | #1,902 |
| 2010 | — | — | 83 | #1,792 |
| 2009 | — | — | 71 | #1,989 |
| 2008 | — | — | 98 | #1,612 |
| 2007 | — | — | 105 | #1,515 |
| 2006 | — | — | 103 | #1,490 |
| 2005 | — | — | 107 | #1,401 |
| 2004 | — | — | 112 | #1,326 |
| 2003 | — | — | 122 | #1,208 |
| 2002 | — | — | 109 | #1,255 |
| 2001 | — | — | 79 | #1,542 |
| 2000 | — | — | 96 | #1,340 |
| 1999 | — | — | 75 | #1,516 |
| 1998 | — | — | 68 | #1,573 |
| 1997 | — | — | 53 | #1,812 |
| 1996 | — | — | 46 | #1,956 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,294 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,926 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,049 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,465 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,750 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,552 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,205 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,437 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #6,075 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,912 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,133 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,207 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,466 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,684 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,142 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,927 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,060 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,743 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,112 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,572 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,240 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,991 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,140 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,717 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,307 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,124 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,757 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #4,034 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,853 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,619 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,053 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,331 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #3,025 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,253 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,250 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,990 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,441 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,949 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,961 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,169 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).