Wilhelm

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Wilhelm: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Wilhelm: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #121, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
77times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#121highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2004–2015

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#3651
2008	#4432
2012	#4805
2015	#4747

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 73 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2015: #173 among boys in Norway, #4747 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #237 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #121 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #121 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Wilhelm appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 73 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,116 births with the name.

Wilhelm across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Wilhelm's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#237 (1945)	#121 (2025)	#121 (2025)	73 of 81	1,116 (1945–2025)	49 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#3651 (2004)	#4747 (2015)	4 of 12	12 (2004–2015)	3 (2004)

Wilhelm by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Wilhelm in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	55	5 of 10	11
1950s	87	10 of 10	9
1960s	46	6 of 10	8
1970s	49	8 of 10	6
1980s	57	8 of 10	7
1990s	116	10 of 10	12
2000s	136	10 of 10	14
2010s	353	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	217	6 of 10	36

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Wilhelm appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #121 in Norway in 2025.

Wilhelm's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#121	49	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#139	40	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#174	31	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#139	40	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#163	31	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#177	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#146	41	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#154	40	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#142	44	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#141	47	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#173	35	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#198	29	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#177	33	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#196	29	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#184	31	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#215	24	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#246	21	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#302	15	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#359	11	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#289	15	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#354	10	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#345	10	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#262	17	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#335	10	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#315	12	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#292	15	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#262	17	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#297	15	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#258	19	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#458	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#372	11	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#357	11	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#390	10	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#443	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#506	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#404	11	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#516	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#531	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#517	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#446	9	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#524	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#521	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#621	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#486	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#450	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#641	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#574	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#588	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#548	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#455	8	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#570	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#494	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#546	5	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#482	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#347	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#426	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#412	7	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#332	10	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#452	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#403	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#340	8	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#384	6	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#230	14	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#312	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#305	8	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#290	9	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#249	12	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#255	11	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#254	11	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#286	9	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#241	13	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#291	9	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#237	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 73 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #121, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Wilfred · #116, 29y
Wilfrid · #1552, 28y
Wilhelmina · #2292, 22y
Wiliam · #1410, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tora · #126, 75y
Rasmus · #130, 78y
Elisabet · #154, 68y
Cato · #85, 77y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Arnold · #121, 64y
Hildur · #121, 27y
Idar · #121, 67y
Jim · #121, 77y

Wilhelm was ranked #121 in Norway · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Wilhelm and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Wilhelm without appearing here.

Wilhelm moved ahead of

Jason Compare
In 1989 they stood at #517 and #495 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #404 and #625.
Stig Compare
In 2004 they stood at #345 and #341 in Norway · Boys; by 2005 that had become #354 and #559.
Trond Compare
In 2005 they stood at #354 and #264 in Norway · Boys; by 2006 that had become #289 and #480.
Øystein Compare
In 2008 they stood at #302 and #266 in Norway · Boys; by 2009 that had become #246 and #420.

Moved ahead of Wilhelm

Adrian Compare
In 1973 they stood at #455 and #485 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #548 and #280.
Oliver Compare
In 1974 they stood at #548 and #572 in Norway · Boys; by 1975 that had become #588 and #328.
Jonathan Compare
In 1975 they stood at #588 and #612 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #574 and #336.
Samuel Compare
In 1973 they stood at #455 and #523 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #548 and #326.

Moved the opposite way to Wilhelm

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Wilhelm

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Wilhelm went from #237 to #121 and Daniel from #280 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #121 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Wilhelm

Wilhelm at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wilhelm across 2 official records

Wilhelm by decade in Norway · Boys

Wilhelm appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Wilhelm at a glance

Wilhelm across 2 official records

Wilhelm by decade in Norway · Boys

Wilhelm appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Wilhelm

Wilhelm and the names beside it

Wilhelm moved ahead of

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