Willie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative spelling of willy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wiʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Willie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 484(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K
- USUnited States1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #496 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 518 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 484 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Alternative spelling of willy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Willie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 977 | — | Willie | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | #474 | ≈480,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | — | Willie | 6 |
| US United States | #189 | 156,156 | 1 in 2.1K | 134K | Willie | 518 |
| GB United Kingdom | #341 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3.8K | Willie | 165 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Willie | 16 |
| CA Canada | #372 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2 | Willie | 143 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Willie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, contraction of wil nie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Wallace Lincolnb. 1850USnot in their usual namethird son of Abraham Lincoln
- Blind Willie Johnsonb. 1897USAmerican blues musician (1897–1945)
- Big Mama Thorntonb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
- Willie Maysb. 1931USAmerican baseball player (1931–2024)
- Willie Nelsonb. 1933USAmerican country musician (born 1933)
- Willie Brownb. 1934US41st Mayor of San Francisco
- Willie Hallb. 1950USAmerican drummer, actor and musician
- Willie Garsonb. 1964USAmerican actor (1964–2021)
- Willie Andersonb. 1967USAmerican basketball player (born 1966)
- Fetty Wapb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 134K | #358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #358 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 147 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Willie a male or female name?
- Willie 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.
- What does the name Willie mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of willy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Willie?
- In the etymology graph, Guillermo, Bill and Guilherme are forms of the same name in other languages; Billy and Billie are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Willie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Willie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled willie.
- How do you pronounce Willie?
- A machine transcription gives /wiʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Willie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 156,156 people named Willie in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Willie compared with other names?
- In the United States, Willie is the 189th most common given name of 2,815,431 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/willieThe 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, “Willie” — the 189th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.