William

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given name masculine given name

William is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.

Aliases (1)

William Alexander ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	given name → masculine given name →
category	English masculine given names → Germanic given names →
cognate	Guglielmo → Guillaume → Guillermo → Wilhelm → Willem →
derivedFrom	Willahelm →
diminutive	Billy → Willy →
etymologicalComponent	helm → wil →
gender	masculine →
hasNameDayInSomeTraditions	January 10 →
hasOrigin	Germanic languages → Old High German →
hasVariant	Bill → Billy → Guglielmo → Guillaume → Guillermo → Liam → Vilhelm → Wilhelm → Will → Willem → Willy →
historicalPopularity	medieval England →
introducedToEnglandBy	Normans →
isCommonIn	Australia → Canada → English-speaking countries → New Zealand → United Kingdom → United States →
languageOfUse	Dutch → English → French → German → Scandinavian languages →
meaning	desire → helmet → protection → will →
shortForm	Bill → Liam → Will →
usageType	first name →

Referenced by (349)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bill Barber → Bill Belichick → Bill Bidwill → Bill Bowerman → Bill Bradley → Bill Burr → Bill Carrigan → Bill Cartwright → Bill Clinton → Bill Condon → Bill Conti → Bill Cosby → Bill Cowher → Bill Dinneen → Bill Gates → Bill Hewlett → Bill Joy → Bill Klem → Bill Murray → Bill Nye → Bill Paxton → Bill Pullman → Bill Russell → Bill Russell → Bill Shankly → Bill Tilden → Bill Walton → Billie Burke → Billy Bishop → Billy Bob Thornton → Billy Burke → Billy Crystal → Billy Cunningham → Billy Donovan → Billy Graham → Billy Joel → Billy Mauch → Brad Pitt → Buck Showalter → Bull Halsey → Butch van Breda Kolff → Clark Gable → Claude Rains → Claude Rains → Count Basie → F. W. Maitland → Frederick William II of Prussia → George William Gilbert Russell → Hal Ashby → Henry William Frederick Albert → J. M. W. Turner → Jeff Hostetler → John William Wallace → Lawrence Bragg → Liam Lynch → Liam Neeson → Lord Beaverbrook → Lord Cork and Orrery → Lord Kelvin → Lord Rayleigh → Mark Felt → Maxwell Perkins → Nassau William Senior → Olaf Stapledon → Pitt the Elder → Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland → Prince William of Gloucester → Prince William, Prince of Wales → Ray J → Red Holzman → Red Whittaker → Rocky Wirtz → Scotty Bowman → Sir William John Kilpatrick McConnell → Sir William Phips → Smokey Robinson → Vincent Astor → W. C. Handy → W. E. B. Du Bois → W. G. Snuffy Walden → W. T. Cosgrave → W.B. Yeats → Will Arnett → Will Ferrell → Will H. Hays → Will Rogers → Willem Dafoe → William A. Bardeen → William A. Moffett → William Adam the Younger → William Adams Delano → William Austin Dickinson → William B. Bankhead → William B. Mayo → William Baldwin → William Barton Rogers → William Bateson → William Birdwood → William Bradford → William Brewster → William Broyles Jr. → William Burnet Tuthill → William C. Durant → William C. Foster → William C. Gorgas → William C. McCool → William C. Redfield → William C. deMille → William Cadogan → William Cameron Menzies → William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire → William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington → William Chase Temple → William Clark → William Clay Ford Jr. → William Clay Ford Sr. → William Clive → William Coddington → William Cohen → William Colby → William Colgate → William Conant Church → William Cranch → William Cullen Bryant → William D. Leahy → William D. Ruckelshaus → William D. Ruckelshaus → William Dawes → William Dean Howells → William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas → William E. Boeing → William E. Simon → William Edward Crystal → William Enfield → William English Walling → William Erasmus Darwin → William Ewart Gladstone → William F. Buckley Jr. → William F. Cody → William F. Lamb → William F. Raynolds → William Faulkner → William Felton Russell → William Felton Russell → William Flynt Nichols → William Forsythe → William Franklin → William Friedkin → William Gardner Choate → William George Spencer → William Good → William Graham Sumner → William Graham Sumner → William Greenleaf Eliot → William H. Foege → William H. Foege → William H. Gates Sr. → William H. P. Blandy → William H. Press → William H. Rehnquist → William H. Russell → William H. Seward → William H. Winder → William Hague → William Halsey Jr. → William Halsey Jr. → William Henry Harrison → William Henry Vanderbilt → William Herndon → William Hobson → William Holman Hunt → William Howard Russell → William Howard Taft → William Howe → William Hunt (judge) → William Huskisson → William I of Orange → William I of Scotland → William I of the Netherlands → William I, Elector of Hesse → William I, German Emperor → William II of England → William II of Scotland → William II, Margrave of Meissen → William II, Prince of Orange → William III of the Netherlands → William IV → William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg → William IV, Prince of Orange → William Irving → William J. Brennan Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. → William J. Brennan Jr. → William J. Casey → William J. Donovan → William J. Hochul Jr. → William J. Mayo → William James → William Jefferson Clinton → William Jennings Bryan → William Jessop → William Johnson → William K. Reilly → William Karush → William Keighley → William Kennedy Laurie Dickson → William Kissam Vanderbilt → William L. Cabell → William L. Shelton → William L. Whittaker → William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne → William Laud → William Lloyd Garrison → William Lloyd Garrison → William Lloyd Garrison → William Lyon Mackenzie King → William M. Evarts → William Marsden → William Marsden → William Marsh Rice → William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke → William Marshall → William Maxwell Aitken → William May Garland → William McKinley → William Merritt Chase → William Morris → William Morris Hunt → William Newsom → William O. Douglas → William O. Douglas → William O. Wooldridge → William P. Frye → William P. Rogers → William Palin → William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne → William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne → William Paterson → William Penn → William Pereira → William Phips → William Pitt the Elder → William Pitt the Elder → William Pitt the Younger → William Prescott → William R. Davie → William R. Day → William R. Sears → William R. Shafter → William Randolph Hearst → William Rockefeller → William Rockhill Nelson → William S. Benson → William S. Burroughs → William S. Knudsen → William S. Paley → William S. Parsons → William Sancroft → William Sancroft → William Shakespeare → William Shirley → William Shockley → William Sims → William Smith O'Brien → William Steinberg → William Stoughton → William T. Golden → William T. Sampson → William T. Sampson → William T. Vollmann → William Tecumseh Sherman → William Tecumseh Sherman → William Tilden Blodgett → William Tryon → William Tudor → William Tyndale → William V, Prince of Orange → William Van Mildert → William W. Boyington → William Wallace Lincoln → William Walton → William Wellesley-Pole → William West Durant → William Westmoreland → William White → William Wilberforce → William Withering → William Wordsworth → William Wrigley Jr. → William Wyler → William Z. Foster → William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel → William of Hatfield → William of Windsor → William von Meister → William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) → Willie Sutton →	givenName
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong → William Carleton → William Hayes Fogg → William Marshall (British Army officer) → William Rogers → William Smith of Aberdeen → William Wallace →	hasGivenName
Andrew W. Mellon → Arthur Tedder → David William Cowens → John W. Mauchly → John William Waterhouse → Kennedy William Gordy →	middleName
Wil → Will → Willis → Willson → Willy →	relatedName
Guilherme → Guillaume → Guillermo →	equivalentFormOf
Guillaume → Guillermo → Willem →	hasCognate
Bill → Will → Willy →	shortFormOf
Williams → Wilson →	derivedFromGivenName
Bill → Wilkin →	diminutiveOf
Snow White and the Huntsman →	character
Ville →	cognateOf
Willem →	correspondsTo
Wilhelm →	equivalentForm
Guglielmo →	equivalentFormInEnglish
Bill →	etymologicallyRelatedTo
Wilsen →	hasEtymologicalRoot
Williamson →	hasGivenNameBasis
The Great Commoner →	hasGivenNameOfReferent
Willahelm →	hasModernDescendant
Wilsen →	hasRelatedName
John Alexander ("William Alexander") →	hasRelative
Willem →	hasVariant
Williams →	hasVariantForm
William Rogers →	isComposedOf
Liam →	isDiminutiveOf
Guillaume →	isFrenchFormOf
Willahelm →	isHistoricalRootOf
Liam →	isShortFormOf
William of Windsor →	namedAfter
Bill →	nicknameFor