William

Masculine

Meaning

Resolute protector

Etymology

From the Norman French Willaume, derived from the Germanic Willahelm, composed of wil "will, desire" and helm "helmet, protection." Introduced to England by William the Conqueror.

About the Name William

One of the most successful names in English history, William has been the name of four English kings and numerous presidents. Its Norman French origins made it the dominant name of the English aristocracy after 1066.

Notable Bearers

William Shakespeare William the Conqueror William Faulkner William McKinley

Historical People Named William

WILLIAM A. ASHBROOK

HONORABLE

WILLIAM ALEXANDER GRAHAM

WILLIAM B. COCHRAN

GENERAL

WILLIAM BARNES

DOCTOR

WILLIAM BAUCHOP WILSON

WILLIAM BEACE

BRIGADIER GENERAL, N.A.

WILLIAM BYNUM

JUDGE

WILLIAM C. BROWN

GENERAL

WILLIAM C. GORGAS

MRS.

WILLIAM COX

V.

WILLIAM CROZIER

GENERAL

WILLIAM DAVIDSON

M.

WILLIAM DELACEY

JUDGE

WILLIAM DeLACY

JUDGE

WILLIAM E. ANDREWS

HONORABLE

WILLIAM E. CLEARY

HONORABLE

WILLIAM EYNON

WILLIAM F. GUDE

WILLIAM F. KING

DOCTOR

WILLIAM FIESINGER

REPRESENTATIVE

WILLIAM FISHER

WILLIAM FRIERSON

WILLIAM GRIEST

WILLIAM H. CARTER

HONORABLE

WILLIAM H. STEVENSON

WILLIAM HARVEY

COLONEL, N.A.

WILLIAM HINEBAUGH

Representative from Illinois, 1913-1915

WILLIAM HOWLAND

WILLIAM HUMPHREY

WILLIAM HUNTER

B.

WILLIAM IRWIN

WILLIAM J. FLYNN

CHIEF, U.S. SECRET SERVICE

WILLIAM J. WHEELER

COMMANDER

WILLIAM KETTNER

HONORABLE

WILLIAM LASSITER

GENERAL

WILLIAM MAXON

WILLIAM McMASTER

SENATOR

WILLIAM OLDFIELD

WILLIAM P. KENNEDY

WILLIAM PULLMAN

E.

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST

WILLIAM ROGERS

A.

WILLIAM RUCKER

JUDGE

WILLIAM T. PAGE

WILLIAM T. RUSSELL

MONSIGNOR

WILLIAM TRACY ALDEN

WILLIAM W. HARTS

COLONEL

WILLIAM W. LARSEN

HONORABLE

WILLIAM [...]EY

HONORABLE

William A. Ayres

Chair

William A. Calvin

Sect. Treasurer

William A. Colmer

Rep.

William A. Dalziel

Deputy Sealer

William A. Durgin

William A. Graham

Gov.

William A. Mann

Brigadier General, U.S.A.

William A. Moffett

Rear Admiral

William A. Oldfield

REP. FROM ARK.

William A. Pile

Hon.

William A. Read

William A. Richardson

Hon.

William A. Rodenberg

Honorable

William A. Sculley

William A. Scully

William A. Sirovich

Rep.

William A. Van Duzer

Traffic Director

William A. Wheeler

Hon.

William A. White

Dr.

William Abbott

William Adams

William Adams Richardson

William Adamson

Judge

William Agee

William Ainey

Honorable

William Alden Smith

Senator

William Alden Taft

Chief Justice

William Alexander

Administrator

William Alexander Massey

Senator from Nevada

William Alexander Smith

Hon.

William Allen

Gov.

William Allen Cullop

Representative

William Allen White

William Andrew Johnson

William Andrew Wallace

Senator

William Andrews

Honorable

William Arbuckle

William Arnold

Colonel

William Asher

William Atkeson

William Atterbury

Vice President, Pennsylvania Railroad

William Austin

Director

William Averill Harriman

Board Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad

William Ayres

Honorable

William B. Anderson

Representative of Illinois

William B. Bankhead

Speaker

William B. Dillingham

Senator

William B. King

William B. McKelden

William B. McKinley

Honorable

William B. Shearer

William B. Shubrick

Adm.

William B. Smathers

Senator

William B. Umstead

Representative

William B. Wilson

William Badders

Master Diver

William Baffett

William Bailey Howland

William Bainbridge

Commodore, U.S.N.

William Bankhead

William Barrett Washburn

Hon.

William Barton

Rev.

William Beaumont

William Beck

William Benson

Admiral

William Benton

William Berlan

Representative

William Berwick

Chief, Repairing Division

William Beye

Vice President

William Biddle

Major General

William Biggs

Safety Engineer

William Bigler

Hon.

William Bishop

Librarian

William Bissroff

William Blackburn

William Blackburne

William Blackshear

William Boland

William Bones

William Borah

William Borden

Major

William Borland

Honorable

William Bouck

Hon.

William Bowie

Doctor

William Boyce

William Boyer

William Bradley

Governor of Kentucky, 1895-1899; Senator, 1909-1914

William Bragg

Sir

William Brander

Chaplain

William Brandon

Governor

William Bride

William Brigham

William Brockman Bankhead

Speaker

William Broening

Mayor

William Brown

Hon.

William Brown McKinley

Rep. from Illinois, Senator

William Browner

Assistant Astronomer

William Browning

Honorable

William Bryan

William Bryant

William Buckingham

Hon.

William Buffington

William Buies

William Bullitt

American Envoy to Moscow

William Bulow

Senator

William Burgess

William Burke

William Burns

Detective

William Butler

Hon.

William Butterworth

President

William Byrne

Hon.

William C. Bruce

Senator

William C. Bullitt

envoy

William C. Coles

Honorable

William C. DeLanoy

William C. Goodloe

Hon.

William C. Hammer

William C. Harney

Gen.

William C. McCuistion

William C. Redfield

William C. Robertson

William C. Sproul

Gov.

William C. Whitthorne

William Cabell Bruce

Senator

William Calder

Representative from New York, 1905-1915; Senator, 1917-1923

William Caldwell

Hon.

William Campbell

William Campbell Preston

Hon.

William Carss

William Casey

William Cassidy

Captain

William Castle

Assistant Secretary of State

William Chamberlaine

General

William Chambers

Judge

William Charles Adamson

Rep. from Georgia

William Chase

Reverend

William Citron

Representative

William Claflin

Honorable

William Coblentz

Dr.

William Coffine

William Collier

William Colmer

Representative

William Conklin

Colonel

William Conley

Governor

William Connery

Representative

William Connor

Brigadier General

William Corcoran Eustis

William Cornery

William Cox Redfield

Representative from New York; Secretary of Commerce

William Coyle

Rep.

William Crapo

M.C.

William Crawford Sherrod

Hon.

William Creighton

Reverend

William Crittenden Mooney

Rep.

William Croll

William Crow

Senator

William Crutchfield

Hon.

William Culberson

William Culbertson

Minister

William Cullop

Rep. from Indiana, 1909-1917

William Cummings Story

William Curtis

William Cushing Edes

William D. Leahy

Admiral

William D. Mitchell

William D. Redmond

M.P., Ireland

William D. Robinson

William D. Upshaw

Honorable

William D. Whipple

General

William D. Whitney

Counsel for the Pinkerton's

William D.L. Starbuck

Federal Radio Commission member

William Dargie

Honorable

William Darwin

William Davis

Chairman

William Day

Judge

William De Laney

Director War Risk

William Dellingham

Sen.

William Demaine

William Dempsey

William Denning

William Depuy Connor

Brigadier General

William Dickerman

Head of the American Locomotive works

William Dietrich

Sen.

William Dillingham

Governor of Vermont, 1886-1890; Senator, 1900-1923

William Ditter

William Doak

Secretary

William Donovan

Assistant Attorney General

William Doty

Honorable

William Douglas

William Draper Lewis

Director

William Driver

William Du Bose

Rear Admiral

William Dunn

Gen.

William E. Bergin

General

William E. Borah

William E. Brock

Senator

William E. Brown

William E. Chancellor

Professor

William E. Chandler

Secretary of Navy

William E. Harvey

Colonel

William E. Humphrey

Rep. from Washington, 1903-1907

William E. Jamieson

William E. Knox

William E. Levis

President

William E. Naylor

Col.

William E. Payne

William E. Pulliam

William E. Raymond

William E. Reynolds

Captain

William E. Robinson

William Eaton

Representative

William Eckloff

William Edgar Borah

Senator

William Edgerton

William Edward Finck

William Egberts

William Emory

General, U.S.A.

William Ennis

William Ephraim Smith

Hon., 1st Lt., Capt.

William Esselstyne Lansing

Hon.

William Evans

Colonel

William Evans Arthur

William Evarts

Hon.

William Everson

Brigadier General

William F. Callander

Chairman

William F. Hitt

William F. Martin

Special Assistant to Attorney General

William F. McDowell

Bishop

William F. Rosenblum

Rabbi

William F. Stone

Sergeant-at-Arms

William F. Whiting

William F. Wilbur

Secretary

William F. Williams

William Fallon

Reverend

William Felmer

William Ferguson Slemons

Colonel

William Ferguson, Massey

Right Honourable

William Fields

Hon.

William Fischer

Captain

William Fitzgerald

William Fletcher Sapp

Lt. Col.

William Flinn

William Floyd

William Flynn

William Forney

Honorable

William Fosgate Kirby

Senator from Arkansas, 1916-1921

William Foster

William Fowler

Dr.

William Francis Murray

Rep. from Massachusetts, 1911-1914

William Franklin Sands

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Guatemala

William Frederick Sapp

Lawyer, of Kansas

William Freeman Snow

William Frost

Doctor, President of Berea College

William Furlong

Rear Admiral

William Fyler Page

William G. Brown

Honorable

William G. Donnan

Hon.

William G. McAdoo

Honorable

William G. Mitchell

Colonel

William G. Ryan

William G. Sharp

Ambassador

William Gerstle

Honorable

William Gibbs McAdoo

Secretary of the Treasury

William Gilmore Simms

Poet

William Glasscock

J.

William Godshalk

Hon.

William Gordon

Honorable

William Gorgas

Surgeon General

William Gorgies

Colonel

William Graham

William Grass

William Graves Sharp

American E.J.P. to France, 1914-

William Grayson

William Greeley

Chief of the U.S. Forest Service

William Green

William Gude

William H. Abbott

William H. Beck

William H. Boyce

William H. Emory

Gen.

William H. Gardner

William H. Goss

William H. Hart

General

William H. Hunt

Secretary of Navy

William H. King

Senator

William H. Kirkpatrick

William H. Moncrief

Colonel

William H. Moody

William H. Moore

Judge

William H. Moran

William H. Noble

Captain

William H. Payne

William H. Prescott

William H. Santelmann

Captain

William H. Smathers

Senator

William H. Standley

Admiral

William H. Taft

William H. White

Sen.

William H. Wills

Governor

William H.H. Terrill

William Hall

William Halstead

Hon.

William Hammer

Honorable

William Hard

William Harman

William Harrell Felton

William Harridge

President

William Harris

Senator

William Harrison Hayes

William Harrison Hays

William Hart

Major General

William Harts

Colonel

William Hartsfield

Mayor

William Hase

Colonel

William Hastings

Rep.

William Hayes

William Haymond

Representative, Surgeon

William Hays

William Haywood

William Hazell

William Hazen

General

William Hearst

William Henry Barnum

Hon.

William Henry Boyce

Rep. from Delaware, 1923-1925

William Henry Gherardi Bullard

Rear Admiral

William Henry Gould Bullard

Rear Admiral

William Henry Harrison Stowell

Hon.

William Henry Hinebaugh

Rep. from Illinois, 1913-1915

William Henry Hunt

Secretary of Navy

William Henry Johnston

William Henry King

REP. FROM UTAH, 1900-1901; SENATOR, 1917-

William Henry Lamport

Hon.

William Henry Murray

Rep. from Oklahoma, 1913-1917

William Henry O'Connell

Cardinal

William Henry Ryan

Representative

William Henry Seward

Secretary of State

William Henry Stone

Hon.

William Henry Vallance

William Herbert Bixby

Brigadier General

William Hershey

William Hill

Representative

William Hinckley

William Hitz

Justice

William Hodson

Commissioner

William Holaday

Representative

William Holman

Congressman

William Holt

William Homer

William Honn

William Hope

Judge

William Hopwood

General

William Howard Black

justice

William Howard Taft

William Howes

First Assistant Postmaster General

William Hughes

William Hull

William Husband

William Hutchinson

William Hutton

William I. Myers

Governor of the Farm Credit Administration

William Igoe

Rep. from Missouri, 1913-1921

William Ingle

William Ingraham

Assistant Secretary of War

William Irvine

Hon.

William J. Bryan

William J. Bulow

Senator

William J. Burns

William J. Collins

William J. Cronin

William J. Driver

Judge

William J. Flather

William J. Gaynor

Mayor

William J. Harris

Senator

William J. Hushk

William J. McAdoo

William J. Meyers

Governor Farm Credit Administration

William J. Miller

Representative

William J. Mills

Governor

William J. Murtha

William J. Patterson

William J. Rush

Mrs.

William J. Sears

William J. Smith

President

William J. Stone

Senator

William J. Thompkins

Dr.

William Jackson

William Jacobsen

William Jamieson

William Jardene

William Jardine

William Jarrett

William Jennings Bryan

William John Cooper

Dr.

William Johnson

Hon.

William Johnston

William Joseph Cary

Representative from Wisconsin

William Joseph Simmons

Colonel

William Kelley

Hon.

William Kellogg

Sen. & Rep.

William Kelly

Vice President

William Kennedy

Representative from Connecticut

William Kent

Honorable

William Kenyon

Senator

William Kerr

Honorable

William Kimmel

Representative

William King

Senator

William King Sebastian

Hon.

William Kirby

Senator

William Kitchin

Representative from North Carolina; Governor

William Knowles Cooper

William Knudsen

William Koontz

Hon.

William Kopp

Honorable

William Kuman

William L. Austin

Census Bureau Director

William L. Batt

President, SKF Industries

William L. La Follette

Honorable

William L. Marcey

William L. Mellon

William Lacy Kenly

Major

William Lambert

William Lamport

William Langford

William Larsen

William Lawrence

Colonel

William Lawrence Saunders

William Leahy

Rear Admiral

William Lee

William Leiserson

NLRB member

William Lemke

William Lewis

William Limeberger

Rep.

William Lloyd Garrison

William Loeb

Honorable

William Lohmer

William Long

Colonel

William Lorimer

Senator

William Loughridge

Hon.

William Lucktenberg

William Lyon Mackenzie-King

Rt. Hon.

William Lytle Schurz

William M Leiserson

NLRB member

William M. Black

General

William M. Butler

Chairman

William M. Colmer

Representative

William M. Evarts

Secretary of State

William M. Garland

Honorable

William M. Hoge

Major

William M. Jardine

William M. Mann

Dr.

William M. Mooney

William M. Steuart

William M. Stewart

William MacCauley

William MacKenzie King

William MacNulty

Captain

William Macaulay

William Mahone

Hon.

William Malburn

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1914-1917

William Malone

former Chairman

William Manning

Major

William Marcy

Hon.

William Martin

Lieutenant Colonel

William Mason

William Mather Lewis

William McAdoo

William McBride

William McCracken

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation

William McDermott

Chief Bill Clerk of the House

William McE. Lewis

William McFarland

Hon. Rep.

William McKenzie-King

Prime Minister of Canada

William McKinley

Pres.

William McLean

William McMooney

William McNair

William Meggers

Doctor

William Middleton

William Miller

Representative

William Miller Collins

William Mitchell

William Moffett

Admiral

William Moffitt

Rear Admiral

William Mooney

Postmaster

William Moore

William Moorhead

William Morgan

M.

William Morris Hughes

William Morris Stewart

Hon.

William Morrow

William Morton

William Moulton Ingraham

Assistant Secretary of War, 1916-1917

William Mungen

Hon.

William Munger

Research Director

William Murray

William Murray Black

Brigadier General

William Musgrave Calder

Representative

William Mutchler

Hon. Rep.

William Myers

Governor

William N. Doak

Secretary of Labor

William N. Jardine

Secretary of Agriculture

William N. Morell

William Nelson

Honorable

William Newton

William Nolan

Apiculturist

William Nutt

William O'Connell

Cardinal

William O'Toole

William O. Atkeson

William O. Douglas

Commissioner of S.E.C.

William Ocker

Captain

William Oliver

William Orr

William Orville Douglas

Chairman

William Otto

William Overton

Capt.

William P. Barnhart

William P. Connery

Rep.

William P. Cormery

Jr.

William P. Frye

Hon. Senator

William P. MacCracken

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

William P. McCracken

William P. Reeves

Doctor

William P.G. Harding

William Page

William Pakenham

Vice Admiral

William Paley

President

William Palmer

Sculpture Museum

William Pat Boland

William Patterson Borland

Rep. from Missouri, 1909-1919

William Peak

Major

William Pegues Pollock

Senator

William Pelley

William Perkin

Senator

William Perkins

Sir

William Perry

William Peter Sprague

Hon.

William Phillip

Acting Secretary of State

William Phillips

William Pierce Price

Hon.

William Pike

Honorable

William Pine

William Pinkney Whyte

Hon.

William Pitt Fessenden

Hon.

William Pitt Kellogg

Hon.

William Poage

Representative

William Prescott

Sergeant at Arms

William Proctor

William Purnell Jackson

Senator from Maryland

William R. Castle

William R. Coyle

Rep.

William R. Day

Justice

William R. Green

REP. FROM IA

William R. Hearst

William R. Huber

Machinist Mate, First Class

William R. Shoemaker

Admiral

William R. Stansburg

William R. Stark

Admiral

William R. Walton

Senior Entomologist

William Randall Roberts

William Randolph Steele

Hon. Delegate

William Raney

Attorney General of Canada

William Rankin

William Rawlins

Honorable

William Raymond

William Read

Hon.

William Redfield

Honorable

William Reeves

William Reynolds

Rear Admiral

William Riter

William Ritter

William River

Judge

William Rivers

Col.

William Robbins

Major in C.S.A.

William Robert Wood

Member of Congress

William Robertson

Lieutenant

William Rodenberg

Honorable

William Rohine

William Rufus Day

Secretary of State; Associate Justice of Supreme Court

William Ruhe

commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic

William Rule

Captain

William Ruppert

William Rush Merriam

William Russel Huber

Machinist Mate, First Class

William Russell

William S. Benson

Admiral

William S. Farish

President

William S. Flynn

Gov.

William S. Holman

M.C.

William S. Kenyon

Senator

William S. King

William S. Knudsen

President of General Motors

William S. Sims

Admiral

William S. Vare

Senator

William S. West

Senator

William SNOW

GENERAL

William Sandford

Lieutenant

William Schaefer

William Schaus

Doctor

William Schick

William Schiff

William Scott

Lieutenant

William Seagle

William Sears

William Sharon

Hon.

William Sharp

William Shaw

C.

William Shearer

William Shearer Stenger

Hon. Rep.

William Sheffield Cowles

Rear Admiral

William Sheperd

Captain

William Shepherd

2nd Lieutenant, U.S.A.

William Shepherd Benson

Admiral

William Shields Goodwin

Rep. from Arkansas, 1911-1921

William Shoemaker

Rear Admiral

William Simmons

Col.

William Simms

Admiral

William Sims

Admiral

William Sinek

William Slosson Lincoln

Hon.

William Small

Representative of New Hampshire

William Smather

Senator

William Smathers

Senator

William Smith

William Smoot

Mayor

William Smyth

Hon.

William Solf

Dr.

William Sowden Sims

Admiral

William Spahr

Professor

William Sparks

Hon.

William Spillman

William Sprague

Hon.

William Sproul

William Spry

Governor

William Squire Kenyon

Senator from Iowa, 1911-1922

William Standley

Ad.

William Stanley West

William Starbuck

William Stark

Admiral

William Stedman Greene

Rep. from Massachusetts, 1898-1924

William Stevenson

William Stone

Hon.

William Story

William Stoughton

Hon.

William Sulzer

Rep.

William Summerville Haymond

William T. Byrne

Representative

William T. Clark

Co. D. 13 Mass. Inf.

William T. Durand

Assistant Chairman of the World Power Conference

William T. Galleher

Chairman

William T. Holliday

President

William T. Schulte

Rep.

William Taft

William Taylor

Dr.

William Tecumseh Sherman

General, U.S.A.

William Terry

Brigadier General

William Thompson

William Tilden

William Tomlinson

Lieutenant

William Towers

Honorable

William Turner

Bishop

William Tyler

William Tyler Page

Clerk of the House

William Tyrrell

Sir

William Underwood

Senator

William Upshaw

Representative

William Upson

Hon.

William Upton

William Vaile

Honorable

William Vale

William Van Duzer

William Vanderbilt

Gov.

William Vare

Honorable

William W. Arnold

Honorable

William W. Atterberry

Vice President

William W. Bishop

William W. Brandon

Governor

William W. RUSSELL

William W. Whittinghill

William Wade

Reverend

William Wadsworth

Sen.

William Waldow

Representative

William Wallace

William Wallace Eaton

Senator

William Wallace Wilshire

Representative

William Walsh

Hon.

William Walter Phelps

Representative

William Walton Kitchin

Representative from North Carolina, 1897-1909; Governor, 1909-1913

William Ward

Hon.

William Webb

William Webb Venable

Honorable

William Weigle

William Weinstone

William West

William Wetmore Story

Sculptor

William Wheeler

William Wherry

William Whipp

William Whipple

General

William White

Doctor

William Whiting

F.

William Wilkins

Judge

William Williams

William Williamson

Honorable

William Willoughby

William Wilson Lewis

William Windom

William Winsatt

William Wood

Honorable

William Woodburn

Hon.

William Woods

William Wright

Rep.

William Wrigley

William Wyer

Treasurer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad

William Young

William Aiken

1805–1887 Hon. South Carolina

William Brownlow

1805–1880 Hon. United States

William Fessenden

1806–1869 Hon. Maine

William Alexander Richardson

1810–1880 Hon. United States

William Miles

1810–1875 Hon. New York

William Garrison

1812–1882

William Gilpin

1813–1894 Explorer, Politician, Governor Brandywine, Delaware

William Bacon Stevens

1815–1897 Bishop Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William Cogswell

1815–1887 Gen. Massachusetts

William Dennison

1815–1882 Gov. Cincinnati, Ohio

William Wyatt

1815–1890 Rev. Mid-Atlantic States

William Vandever

1817–1893 Hon. Maryland

William Rosecrans

1819–1898 Gen. Kingston, Ohio

William Jewett

1820–1895 Businessman or civic figure United States

William Shedd

1820–1894 Rev. Vermont

William Sherman

1820–1891 Maj. Gen. Ohio

William T. Sherman

1820–1891 General Lancaster, Ohio

William Thayer

1820–1898 Author, Educator, Publisher Massachusetts

William Franklin

1823–1903 Gen. York, Pennsylvania

William Walker

1824–1860 General Nashville, Tennessee

William Belknap

1825–1890 Gen. Newtown, New Jersey

William Carroll

1825–1895 Hon. Virginia

William Lansing

1825–1895 Businessman Massachusetts

William Odenheimer

1830–1913 Bishop New York

William Smith

1840–1910 Union Soldier, Carpenter Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William Ryan

1845–1920 Rev. New York