Meaning and history
German cognate of William. It was the name of two German emperors and also the middle name of several German philosophers, including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who was also a notable mathematician. Another famous bearer was the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923).
20062006: 17 births, rank #5,072
2007: 22 births, rank #4,375
2008: 20 births, rank #4,714
2009: 20 births, rank #4,748
2010: 26 births, rank #3,894
20112011: 16 births, rank #5,433
2012: 24 births, rank #4,131
2013: 19 births, rank #4,804
2014: 38 births, rank #2,985
2015: 21 births, rank #4,545
20162016: 24 births, rank #4,199
2017: 24 births, rank #4,224
2018: 29 births, rank #3,708
2019: 12 births, rank #6,777
2020: 26 births, rank #3,918
20212021: 25 births, rank #4,118
2022: 33 births, rank #3,464
2023: 18 births, rank #5,255
2024: 25 births, rank #4,200
20252025: 26 births, rank #4,050
Wilhelm moved from #833 to #930 for boys between 1885 and 1902. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 8.