Wili
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wili/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wili is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 10K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 17K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
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)
Wili 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #523 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Wili | 10 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Wili | 27 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Wili | 20 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #923 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Wili | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 517 | 1 in 410K | 919 | Wili | 31 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Wili | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 110 | 1 in 51K | 118 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Wili is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, v., to fall asleep. A wili nji wa ht, to throw, to start, to shoot, to jump, to row, to pull
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In goh, second/third-person singular present indicative of wellen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, to wind, twist, writhe, crank, turn, grind, drill, mix
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In apb, give tribute, contribute money to a chief at a feast
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Polish, third-person plural virile past of wić
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, to bore, twist, drill, writhe, crank
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)
- Wili Jønssonb. 1942DKDanish bassist, keyboard player, composer, and songwriter
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 919 | #9,709 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 867 | #4,149 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 517 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 483 | #13,065 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 482 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 336 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 210 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 146 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 142 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 126 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 118 | #2,717 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 110 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wili?
- A machine transcription gives /wili/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Wili a male or female name?
- Wili 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 Wili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Wili in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wili.
- How common is the name Wili?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 517 people named Wili in 2022, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
- How common is Wili compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Wili is the 523rd most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wili?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiliThe 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, “Wili” — the 523rd most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.