William

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

English form of Wilhelm (see Willihelm) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Liam	♂
Viljam	♂
Wiljam	♂
Viljami	♂
Wiljami	♂
Villiam	♂
William	♂

See also Jami

Name Days

Norway

28 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

6 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1675 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		3	34	18228	34793
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	7355	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	3318	4803
Finland[7]		n.a.	3	n.a	5043
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi