Wílson
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wílson is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Panama it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Will (short form of William) + -son.
- GYGuyana1 in 217(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 249
- USUnited States1 in 415
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- 1 in 217 (inferred from the name graph)
801,882 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wilson in US United States, AR Argentina, PA Panama and 2 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)Will (short form of William) + -son
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wílson 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 | #750 | 801,882 | 1 in 415 | 802K | Wilson | 380 |
| IN India | — | 3,702 | 1 in 358K | 3.7K | Wilson | 75 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3,454 | 1 in 217 | 3.5K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 1,673 | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Wilson | 101 |
| AR Argentina | #909 | 1,487 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Wilson | 79 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,142 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.1K | — | 15 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 408 | 1 in 249 | 408 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 253 | 1 in 447 | 253 | — | — |
| PA Panama | #30 | — | — | — | Wilson | 54 |
801,882 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 Wílson mean, and where does it come from?
- Will (short form of William) + -son Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Wílson a male or female name?
- Wílson 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.
- In which country does Wílson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 802 thousand people named Wílson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilson.
- Where is Wílson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wílson is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 217 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wílson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 801,882 people named Wílson in 2010, about 1 in 415 residents.
- How common is Wílson compared with other names?
- In the United States, Wílson is the 750th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wílson?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%ADlsonThe 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, “Wílson” — the 750th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.