Wim

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled วิม in TH Thailand.

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●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Wim is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name226 records spelled Wim9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Вим, Vim, Vïm, Вйм

• Croatian given name184 records spelled Wim12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Vim, Вим

43 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●

Wim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Initialism of warm ionized medium.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Reduced form of witHELM.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Akan, descr. adv. forthwith, immediately, speedUy; altogether, en masse; - wim na dgm no atu; wobgg wim kgo agyina, they arose all at once and went aside for deliberation

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• ISO 639-3 language code for Wik-Mungkan.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German: contracted form of WILHELM .

  as a word

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Wim van Estb. 1923NLDutch racing cyclist (1923–2003)
• Wim van der Gijpb. 1928NLDutch association football player (1928-2005)
• Wim Deetmanb. 1945NLDutch former politician (born 1945)
• Wim Jansenb. 1946NLDutch association football player and manager (1946–2022)
• Wim Mertensb. 1953BEFlemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist
• Wim Hofb. 1959NLDutch extreme athlete and motivational speaker
• Wim Kieftb. 1962NLDutch footballer
• Wim Delvoyeb. 1965BEBelgian artist (born 1965)
• Wim Opbrouckb. 1969BEBelgian actor and singer
• Wim Stroetingab. 1985NLracing cyclist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wim?

We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Wim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Wim have the most bearers?

Wim is most frequently recorded in Belgium, where it is most often spelled wim.

How common is Wim compared with other names?

In Belgium, Wim is the 81st most common given name of 58,504 given names recorded there.

Is Wim a male or female name?

Wim 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 Wim mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, short for Willem