Vilhelm

Vilhelm

1. a male given name, equivalent to English William

• variants: Villy, William, Willy
• feminine forms: Minna

Vilhelm m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Vilhelm: Vilhelmsson
• daughter of Vilhelm: Vilhelmsdóttir

From Swedish Vilhelm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋilhelm/,
• Rhymes: -ilhelm
• Hyphenation^(key): Vil‧helm

Vilhelm

1. William (of foreign historical persons)

   Vilhelm Valloittaja ― William the Conqueror

2. a male given name, usually a middle name (arguably Swedish, not Finnish)
   • 1960, Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla 2, WSOY, published 1980, →ISBN, page 14:

     Johannes Vilhelmin pojanpojasta oli tehty Vilho Johannes, ja pienokainen nukkui rauhallisena puheensorinan ja tupakansavun täyttämän tuvan nurkassa olevassa kehdossaan.

     The grandson of Johannes Vilhelm had been christened Vilho Johannes, and the little one slept calmly in his cradle, in the corner of the living room filled by chatter and cigarette smoke.

• Vilhelmi, Vilho, Viljami, Ville

• Vilhelm is the 753^rd (tied with 2 other names) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 182 male individuals (and as a middle name to 7,045 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Vilhelm

1. a male given name, equivalent to English William

• variants: William, Willy
• feminine forms: Mina

• Wilhelm

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Wilhelm and English William. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in the 12th century.

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Vilhelm c (genitive Vilhelms)

1. a male given name

• (male given names) Bill, Billy, Villy, Willy, William
• (feminine forms) Mimmi, Vilhelmina, Wilhelmina, Vilma, Wilma
• (surnames) Vilhelmsson, Wilhelmsson

• → Finnish: Vilhelmi

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 23 532 males with the given name vilhelm (compared to 21 343 named Wilhelm) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.