Wilhem
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wilɛm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilhem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 268K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 463K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 268K (inferred from the name graph)
152 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilhem 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 | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Wilhem | 49 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 99 | Wilhem | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | 16 | 1 in 1.1M | 16 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 11 | 1 in 463K | 11 | Wilhem | 4 |
152 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Willem Willinkb. 1750NLnot in their usual namewealthy Amsterdam merchant, and one of the investors in the Holland Land Company, Kirby, C
- Wilhem de Haanb. 1801NLDutch zoologist (1801–1855)
- Frederick William Weidnerb. 1866NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand photographer
- Wilhelm Gröneb. 1905DEnot in their usual nameGerman pastor and merchant (1905–1978)
- Wilhem Herman Daniël Quarles van Uffordb. 1929NLDutch politician (1929–2017)
- Wilhem Latchoumiab. 1974FRFrench classical pianist
- Wilhem Belocianb. 1995FRFrench hurdler
- Wil Aimeb. 1995FRnot in their usual nameFrench videographer
- Wilhem Gwendal Emileb. 2002MUMauritian weightlifter
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 33 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 111 | #148,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99 | #63,821 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Wilhem?
- A machine transcription gives /wilɛm/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Wilhem a male or female name?
- Wilhem 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 Wilhem have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 152 people named Wilhem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilhem.
- Where is Wilhem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wilhem is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 268 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wilhem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Wilhem in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wilhem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilhemThe 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, “Wilhem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.