Willy Forename
1,833rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 544,617 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Belgium
Willy Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 98% | 113,274 | 1:652 | 126 |
| Belgium | 100% | 59,991 | 1:192 | 17 |
| Germany | 100% | 39,323 | 1:2,459 | 369 |
| Burundi | 100% | 35,482 | 1:279 | 40 |
| Philippines | 98% | 29,006 | 1:3,655 | 646 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 23,277 | 1:1,015 | 232 |
| Uganda | 99% | 22,323 | 1:1,835 | 282 |
| Indonesia | 80% | 21,516 | 1:11,989 | 1,685 |
| Rwanda | - | 16,195 | 1:702 | 156 |
| Kenya | 95% | 14,231 | 1:3,254 | 549 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 13,595 | 1:604 | 132 |
| Peru | 100% | 13,155 | 1:2,417 | 455 |
| United States | 95% | 10,962 | 1:33,072 | 2,195 |
| Netherlands | 90% | 10,134 | 1:1,668 | 350 |
| France | 100% | 9,964 | 1:6,671 | 516 |
| Haiti | 100% | 9,063 | 1:1,184 | 187 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 8,725 | 1:1,215 | 292 |
| Tanzania | 99% | 8,427 | 1:6,264 | 969 |
| Brazil | 100% | 7,384 | 1:29,014 | 2,448 |
| Cameroon | 99% | 6,447 | 1:3,352 | 594 |
| Malawi | 100% | 5,563 | 1:3,076 | 533 |
| Norway | 100% | 4,298 | 1:1,194 | 259 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4,089 | 1:461 | 62 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 3,864 | 1:7,816 | 894 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 3,645 | 1:2,862 | 457 |
| Papua New Guinea | 95% | 3,507 | 1:2,325 | 269 |
| South Africa | 98% | 3,410 | 1:15,992 | 2,380 |
| Zambia | - | 3,386 | 1:4,682 | 665 |
| Congo | 91% | 3,051 | 1:1,642 | 263 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 3,031 | 1:10,166 | 1,458 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,710 | 1:12,226 | 1,329 |
| Denmark | - | 2,674 | 1:2,113 | 345 |
| Guatemala | 99% | 2,366 | 1:6,808 | 732 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,785 | 1:21,180 | 2,091 |
| Angola | - | 1,754 | 1:15,374 | 1,486 |
| Togo | - | 1,401 | 1:5,167 | 841 |
| Ghana | - | 1,236 | 1:21,834 | 1,594 |
| Nigeria | 96% | 1,189 | 1:149,339 | 7,219 |
| Colombia | 98% | 1,138 | 1:41,985 | 2,077 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1,086 | 1:4,390 | 584 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 1,066 | 1:28,565 | 2,662 |
| Chile | 100% | 1,040 | 1:16,930 | 998 |
| Sweden | 98% | 1,001 | 1:9,848 | 870 |
| Mexico | 99% | 934 | 1:132,917 | 2,943 |
| Egypt | 82% | 651 | 1:141,169 | 5,768 |
| Ecuador | - | 607 | 1:29,204 | 1,396 |
| Ivory Coast | 91% | 593 | 1:38,914 | 3,049 |
| Italy | 98% | 537 | 1:113,710 | 2,024 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 536 | 1:1,084 | 207 |
| New Zealand | - | 523 | 1:8,673 | 974 |
| Micronesia | - | 509 | 1:209 | 52 |
| England | 90% | 459 | 1:121,139 | 4,290 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| India | 87% | 414 | 1:2,934,488 | 134,618 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 386 | 1:1,461 | 264 |
| Thailand | 100% | 384 | 1:182,463 | 12,476 |
| Australia | - | 374 | 1:36,518 | 1,988 |
| Spain | 100% | 348 | 1:133,707 | 3,347 |
| Honduras | 100% | 339 | 1:26,010 | 1,642 |
| Austria | 100% | 330 | 1:25,801 | 1,060 |
| Morocco | - | 300 | 1:114,495 | 3,629 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 277 | 1:85,811 | 10,775 |
| Singapore | 100% | 276 | 1:22,779 | 4,229 |
| French Polynesia | - | 270 | 1:1,029 | 233 |
| Argentina | 100% | 252 | 1:169,735 | 2,306 |
| Suriname | 100% | 230 | 1:2,404 | 565 |
| El Salvador | - | 206 | 1:30,785 | 1,302 |
| China | - | 204 | 1:6,696,352 | 59,324 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 200 | 1:17,138 | 1,012 |
| Kuwait | - | 190 | 1:19,922 | 2,136 |
| Poland | 100% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Vanuatu | - | 186 | 1:1,407 | 400 |
| Hong Kong | - | 164 | 1:47,273 | 2,497 |
| Panama | 100% | 154 | 1:25,367 | 2,288 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 152 | 1:1,777 | 366 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 120 | 1:60,307 | 2,005 |
| Portugal | - | 120 | 1:86,757 | 2,474 |
| Zimbabwe | 97% | 110 | 1:140,217 | 9,344 |
| Qatar | 100% | 102 | 1:23,231 | 3,339 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 99 | 1:72,242 | 6,147 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 90 | 1:1,030 | 246 |
| Nicaragua | 97% | 84 | 1:71,647 | 2,907 |
| Namibia | - | 81 | 1:29,681 | 2,332 |
| Botswana | 100% | 79 | 1:27,651 | 3,112 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Scotland | 100% | 74 | 1:72,302 | 1,943 |
| Japan | - | 71 | 1:1,802,621 | 18,954 |
| Russia | 89% | 67 | 1:2,152,742 | 14,166 |
| Ireland | 98% | 66 | 1:70,356 | 2,009 |
| Romania | 100% | 61 | 1:328,721 | 9,931 |
| Mauritius | - | 59 | 1:21,996 | 2,010 |
| Finland | 94% | 49 | 1:111,902 | 2,512 |
| South Korea | - | 43 | 1:128,940 | 5,936 |
| Guam | - | 42 | 1:3,825 | 732 |
| Central African Republic | - | 36 | 1:125,428 | 257 |
| Mozambique | - | 36 | 1:756,760 | 1,518 |
| Burkina Faso | 82% | 35 | 1:525,128 | 17,641 |
| Estonia | 100% | 34 | 1:38,688 | 2,486 |
| Aruba | - | 29 | 1:3,579 | 715 |
| Czechia | 97% | 29 | 1:367,454 | 2,177 |
| Benin | 100% | 23 | 1:459,819 | 15,743 |
| Iceland | 100% | 23 | 1:15,914 | 1,219 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 20 | 1:177,515 | 2,440 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Wales | 100% | 19 | 1:162,858 | 3,204 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 18 | 1:5,145,728 | 3,613 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 17 | 1:2,227 | 332 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 16 | 1:115,197 | 1,540 |
| East Timor | - | 16 | 1:76,148 | 197 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:721,939 | 1,033 |
| Greece | 100% | 15 | 1:728,970 | 8,230 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Greenland | - | 14 | 1:4,026 | 570 |
| Latvia | - | 13 | 1:155,050 | 2,346 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 13 | 1:156,923 | 11,892 |
| Monaco | 100% | 13 | 1:2,959 | 566 |
| Oman | - | 13 | 1:316,051 | 4,191 |
| Liberia | 67% | 12 | 1:367,672 | 10,977 |
| Senegal | 80% | 12 | 1:1,215,113 | 10,353 |
| Cuba | - | 11 | 1:1,046,050 | 3,771 |
| Croatia | 100% | 10 | 1:421,708 | 5,130 |
| Jamaica | - | 10 | 1:288,323 | 8,750 |
| Mali | 100% | 9 | 1:1,886,417 | 3,997 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Macau | - | 8 | 1:76,026 | 700 |
| Lebanon | - | 7 | 1:803,939 | 7,854 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 7 | 1:7,319 | 1,092 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 7 | 1:25,402 | 2,434 |
| Ukraine | - | 7 | 1:6,499,987 | 10,516 |
| Georgia | 100% | 6 | 1:623,078 | 10,501 |
| Afghanistan | - | 5 | 1:6,524,703 | 31,933 |
| Algeria | - | 5 | 1:7,635,344 | 12,071 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Israel | 95% | 5 | 1:1,680,584 | 18,495 |
| Jersey | - | 5 | 1:19,996 | 1,220 |
| Turkey | 100% | 5 | 1:15,560,342 | 40,635 |
| Belize | 100% | 4 | 1:88,577 | 5,260 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Cook Islands | - | 4 | 1:4,538 | 691 |
| Dominica | - | 4 | 1:18,868 | 592 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 4 | 1:47,999 | 3,228 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 4 | 1:340,355 | 15,394 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Cape Verde | - | 3 | 1:176,384 | 4,377 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:24,564 | 1,836 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Pakistan | - | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 2 | 1:54,874 | 3,819 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Kiribati | - | 1 | 1:113,394 | 1,211 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Willy (35,022) may also be a surname.
Willy Forename Popularity
Willy Demographics
Willy Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 4 (2016)
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Footnotes
- First names are taken from the first part of an person's personal name. That is, not their inherited name(s), i.e. their surname(s). The first name includes particles, but not middle names
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Willy