William Names for Boys

There are 26 William names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are William names 1 to 20. William was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in English and French, and it was followed in popularity by the English Caleb, the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish Robert, the Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adam, the English Eric, Blake, the English and Irish Brody, Cody, the Breton, English, German, and Scottish Alan, the English and Scottish Maxwell, Camden, the English Harrison, the English, German, and Scottish Keith, the English and German Curtis, the English and Scottish Graham, the English Kelvin, and lastly the English name, Garrison. The unusual William names are Bradford (English), Clive (English), and Lucius (English and German).

William names are very popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1925, 10.881% of baby boys were given William names. There were 17 William names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. William names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but in recent years they are nonetheless of very heavy use. In 2007, 18 William names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 3.636%. Within all William names, the English and French William was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #8 and a usage of 0.8529%.

NAME MATCH:

William 8 ... will, desire; helmet, ...The boy name William is pronounced as WIHLYahM ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Adam 65 ... man; to make ... by the servant in the William Shakespeare play As You ...

Alan 129 ... little rock; harmony, ... a Breton follower of William the Conqueror ...

Blake 88 ... dark; fair ... or the British poet William Blake (1757-1827). ...

Bradford ... broad ford ... bestowed in honor of William Bradford (1590-1657), ...

Brody 105 ... ditch, muddy place ... despite the infamy of William Brodie (1741-1788), one ...

Caleb 36 ... dog; dog-like devotion ... the name appeared in William Godwin's novel Caleb ...

Camden 219 ... enclosed valley; winding ... and historian William Camden (1551-1623), who ...

Clive ... cliff, riverbank, slope ... Clive Newcombe in William Makepeace Thackeray's ...

Cody 120 ... son of Óda, son of Otto, son of Cuidightheach, son of the helpful one ...

Curtis 336 ... courtly, courteous; ... it was known from William the Conqueror's eldest ...

Eric 83 ... lone ruler ... to the popular Frederic William Farrar story on school ...

Garrison 890 ... anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison ...

Graham 383 ... gravelly place, gray ... borne by the knight Sir William de Graham, who ...

Harrison 225 ... son of Harry ... by the presidents William H ...

Keith 298 ... forest, windy place ... family of 13th century William Keith, the Great ...

Kelvin 445 ... narrow water ... physicist Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1824-1907) who ...

Lucius ... bright, born at daybreak ... characters in various William Shakespeare plays ...

Maxwell 153 ... Mack's pool ... name was borne by Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st ...

Robert 47 ... bright famous one; famously famous ... - 1035), the father of William the Conqueror; he was ...