Wm
Wm is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 376th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191685 births
- Best rank
- #376in 1888
- Since 1880
- 2,736people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,650 boys have been named Wm in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 85 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 85 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 86 girls have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wm | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 175 | |
| 1890s | 183 | |
| 1900s | 240 | |
| 1910s | 588 | |
| 1920s | 576 | |
| 1930s | 132 | |
| 1940s | 69 | |
| 1950s | 6 | |
| 1960s | 125 | |
| 1970s | 262 | |
| 1980s | 273 | |
| 1990s | 21 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Wm was the 635th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Wm
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Abepeak 1917
- Brownpeak 1918
- Sampeak 1918
- Othopeak 1915
- Olafpeak 1916
- Odiepeak 1918
- Websterpeak 1915
- Hilliardpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.