Willie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Willie is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of willy.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 2.1K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5K
  • CACanada1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈167K ●

across 10 countries

#904 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
470 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.5K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

WillieLatin · English●2.9M records
ויליHebrew · Hebrew●4.1K records
윌리Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled וילי in FR France, IL Israel, RO Romania and 1 more and Willy in CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Alternative spelling of willy

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Willie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#187133,5532.5M rec.1 in 2.5K134KWillie470
GB United Kingdom#308100,371102K rec.—listedWillie127
CA Canada#40330,49031K rec.—2Willie113
AU Australia#52728,87430K rec.—1Willie112
FR France—18,660△73 rec.1 in 3.6K19Kוילי6
PH Philippines—17,72617K rec.——Willie73
DE Germany#88712,97813K rec.—1Willie78
IT Italy#49712,94013K rec.—8Willie32
RU Russia—10,15310K rec.——Willie23
PK Pakistan#4898,5708.6K rec.——Willie7
ZA South Africa#4837,7178.3K rec.——Willie95
MY Malaysia#7037,2267.4K rec.——Willie53

Roughly 134K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.9M85%
  • 115K3%
  • Spanish109K3%
  • German26K1%
  • French25K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,868,35285%
115,4943%
Spanish108,8073%
German25,7941%
French24,5781%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Willie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name169K records spelled Willie9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Willié, Ŵìllìê

  • Russian given name9.9K records spelled Willie30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Вилли, Віллі, Вили, Willy, Willi

  • a separate given name8.8K records spelled Willie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Netherlands

    Also written Wīllĭe, Wïllíê

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Willie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Afrikaans, contraction of wil nie

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K8K1900195020008K · 1947

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Willie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880476
1881498
1882541
1883474
1884578
1885614
1886641
1887590
1888786
1889708
1890758
1891739
1892948
1893882
1894986
18951,071
18961,092
18971,151
18981,134
18991,088
19002,113
19011,294
19021,565
19031,454
19041,675
19051,782
19061,756
19071,968
19081,964
19092,175
19102,897
19112,492
19123,508
19133,760
19144,709
19155,434
19165,660
19175,751
19186,537
19196,942
19206,887
19216,492
19226,903
19236,665
19246,700
19257,124
19266,820
19276,969
19286,817
19296,616
19306,667
19315,963
19326,547
19335,983
19346,348
19356,327
19366,011
19376,231
19386,081
19396,308
19406,176
19416,526
19427,094
19437,178
19447,195
19457,030
19467,339
19477,997
19487,971
19497,916
19507,717
19517,226
19527,197
19537,056
19546,832
19556,629
19566,525
19576,211
19585,693
19595,374
19605,238
19614,790
19624,541
19634,194
19644,148
19653,807
19663,546
19673,391
19683,109
19693,048
19703,137
19712,862
19722,596
19732,391
19742,223
19752,174
19762,132
19772,163
19782,135
19792,153
19802,167
19811,967
19821,959
19831,763
19841,606
19851,574
19861,490
19871,479
19881,427
19891,460
19901,377
19911,319
19921,212
19931,062
1994941
1995824
1996800
1997774
1998739
1999668
2000610
2001608
2002569
2003559
2004492
2005481
2006507
2007470
2008460
2009401
2010388
2011390
2012369
2013332
2014331
2015307
2016294
2017285
2018228
2019208
2020215
2021161
2022176
2023144
2024138
2025147

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000William Wallace Lincoln, b. 1850Blind Willie Johnson, b. 1897Big Mama Thornton, b. 1926Willie Mays, b. 1931Willie Nelson, b. 1933Willie Brown, b. 1934Willie Hall, b. 1950Willie Garson, b. 1964Willie Anderson, b. 1967Fetty Wap, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 68 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Willie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020134K#358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202023K#358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105K#6,720
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.8K#6,502
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.4K#7,370
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.5K#1,012
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—927#2,182
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—531#2,577
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—425#1,815
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022275—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—265#20,279
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—222#23,789

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 535 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Willie?
We estimate roughly 167 thousand people bear Willie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Willie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 134 thousand people bear Willie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled willie.
How common is Willie compared with other names?
In the United States, Willie is the 187th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Willie a male or female name?
Willie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Willie mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of willy
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Willie” — the 187th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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