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Baby name
Williams
Boy
Origin of the name
Williams was first an English and Welsh surname, “son of William.”
Classic name
6,126births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 740rank at its peak, in 1950
Where babies named Williams are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Williams is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Williams is most common in Mississippi (12.3 times), Georgia (4.6) and Texas (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- William 4,199,696
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