Viljams
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A respelling of the English male given name diminutive William
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viljams is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 10K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
182 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A respelling of the English male given name diminutive William
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viljams 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.
182 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the pl-dane-pesel 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Viljams 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 Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 186 | #922 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 182 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Viljams mean, and where does it come from?
- A respelling of the English male given name diminutive William Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Viljams a male or female name?
- Viljams 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 Viljams?
- In the etymology graph, Vilis and Vilhelms are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Viljams have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 182 people named Viljams, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viljams.
- Where is Viljams most common?
- Viljams is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Viljams?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 182 people named Viljams, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Viljams?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viljamsThe 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, “Viljams”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.