William
1.52k
Babies in 2024
-63%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 5.29k
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name William
William peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (5,287 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 1,517 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
William reached its peak in 1999, when 5,287 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #10 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,517 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 117,982 boys have been officially registered with the name William in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 30,330 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4,134 in 2014 and ending at 1,517 in 2024.