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How popular is the name Will?

Births per year, rank history and how many Wills are alive today.

Will (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 2664th in 2025 and given to 8 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 211 babies were given the name, the 188th most popular that year. It has declined since 2004; the 2025 figure is roughly 4% of its peak. Will is one spelling of a name also recorded as Wil; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Will you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Wills born in England and Wales are between 15 and 25, and there are at least 3,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.2% chance that at least one of them will be called Will.

How many babies are named Will each year?

Includes all spellings: Will, Wil. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Will spelling rank?

Where does the Wil spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.