Wiliams
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɪɫiəmz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wiliams is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. in Wales. see Williams .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 165K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 195K
- DMDominica1 in 25K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. in Wales. see Williams .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wiliams 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Wiliams | 22 |
| US United States | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 195K | listed | Wiliams | 244 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 24 | Wiliams | 90 |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Wiliams | 8 |
| IN India | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9M | 4 | Wiliams | 13 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Wiliams | 6 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Wiliams | 15 |
| DM Dominica | 3 | 1 in 25K | 3 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #27,184 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #224 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Wiliams mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. in Wales. see Williams . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Wiliams?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪɫiəmz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wiliams have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Wiliams in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wiliams.
- Where is Wiliams most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wiliams is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wiliams?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Wiliams, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiliamsThe 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, “Wiliams”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.