Wìlly
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wìlly is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English willy, willi, equivalent to will + -y. Cognate with Dutch willig (“obedient, hearsome”), German willig (“willing”), Swedish villig (“willing, agreeable”).
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.2K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wìlly itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
173,433 named Billy, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Willy in US United States, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Middle English willy, willi, equivalent to will + -y. Cognate with Dutch willig (“obedient, hearsome”), German willig (“willing”), Swedish villig (“willing, agreeable”).
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wìlly counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 173,433as Billy | 1 in 1.9K | 171K | Willy | 263 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Willy | 53 |
| PE Peru | #418 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Willy | 82 |
| FR France | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 19K | — | 4 |
| BO Bolivia | #23 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Willy | 39 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 7.2K | Willy | 23 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 146 | Willy | 28 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #100 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Willy | 50 |
| FI Finland | — | 5,760as Vili | 1 in 967 | 5.9K | Willy | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,876 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.9K | Willy | 14 |
173,433 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling billy. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wìlly mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English willy, willi, equivalent to will + -y. Cognate with Dutch willig (“obedient, hearsome”), German willig (“willing”), Swedish villig (“willing, agreeable”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Wìlly have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 173 thousand people named Billy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wìlly?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,876 people named Wìlly, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Wìlly compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Wìlly is the 23rd most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%ACllyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Wìlly” — the 23rd most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.