Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Wilco is a diminutive of Willem. Willem comes from Middle Dutch, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Dutch usage, Wilco is a diminutive of Willem.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wilco through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 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 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wilco’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Wilco is a diminutive of Willem. In Dutch usage, Wilco has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Will.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wilco
- Wilco KeldermanDutch road bicycle racerborn 1991
- Wilco ZeelenbergDutch motorcycle racerborn 1966
- Wilco Zuijderwijkcyclistborn 1969
- Wilco LouwSouth African rugby union footballerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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