Given name & surname
Ville
“the determined protector”
In Swedish use, Ville is a diminutive of Vilhelm. In Danish use, Vilhelm carries the interpretation “the determined protector.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Swedish use, Ville is a diminutive of Vilhelm. In Danish use, Vilhelm carries the interpretation “the determined protector.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Ville is a diminutive of Vilhelm.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ville through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 119 as a first name in 2020; 218 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ville’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Ville is a diminutive of Vilhelm. In Finnish usage, Ville has a conventional equivalent in the French form Guillaume. In Finnish usage, Ville has a conventional equivalent in the German form Wilhelm.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ville has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Swedish roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ville
- Ville ValoFinnish singerborn 1976
- Ville RitolaFinnish long distance runner1896–1982
- Ville NieminenFinnish ice hockey player (born 1977)
- Ville PeltonenFinnish ice hockey player and coachborn 1973
- Ville NiinistöFinnish politician (born 1976)
- Ville PokkaFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1994
- Ville HaapasaloFinnish actorborn 1972
- Ville RäikkönenFinnish biathleteborn 1972
- Ville JalastoFinnish footballerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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