Vilhelms
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vilhelms is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Latvia.
- LVLatvia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vilhelms Rozenieksb. 1868LVLatvian cleric (1868-1941)
- Vilhelms Purvitisb. 1872LVLatvian artist (1872-1945)
- Vilhelms Bergmanisb. 1875LVLatvian writer
- Vilhelms Jansonsb. 1896LVLatvian engineer
- Vilis Valdmanisb. 1906LVnot in their usual nameLatvian painter (1906-1980)
- Vilhelms Kaņepsb. 1923BYLatvian physician
- Vilhelms Ņukšsb. 1938LVRoman Catholic bishop
- Vilhelms Lapelisb. 1961LVLatvian catholic priest
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 258 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 252 | #805 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2024 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Vilhelms mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Vilhelms a male or female name?
- Vilhelms 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 are other forms of the name Vilhelms?
- In the etymology graph, William, Guillermo and Willie are forms of the same name in other languages; Vilis is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Vilhelms have the most bearers?
- Vilhelms is most frequently recorded in Latvia.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilhelmsThe 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, “Vilhelms”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.