Willi
Willi is a short form of the male given names Wilhelm or Willibald .
The name is also spelled Willy .
distribution
At the turn of the 20th century, during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the name Willi (Willy) was among the ten most common boy names of the respective year a few times. After the end of the imperial era, its popularity declined more and more. From the mid-sixties it was hardly used anymore. Since the new millennium, however, a slight increase in its popularity has been observed again.
Name bearer
First name
- Willi Arlt (1919–1947), German soccer player
- Willi Bäuerle (1926–1996), German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Willi Beuster (trade unionist) (1898–1982), German trade unionist, politician (KPD / SED) and resistance fighter
- Willi Beuster (politician, 1908) (1908–1981), German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
- Willi Bohn (1900–1985), German journalist and politician
- Willi Butollo (* 1944), Austrian psychologist and psychotherapist
- Willi Daume (1913–1996), German sports official
- Willi Dürrschnabel (1945–2014), German soccer player
- Willi Entenmann (1943–2012), German soccer player and coach
- Willi Fährmann (1929–2017), German writer
- Willi Forst (1903–1980) Austrian film director, actor and singer
- Willi Frommelt (* 1952), Liechtenstein skier
- Willi Gerdau (1929–2011), German soccer player
- Willi Gerk (* 1990), German actor
- Willi Göttert (1911–2008), German pastor and peace activist
- Willi Graf (1918–1943), German resistance fighter
- Willi Handl (1872–1920), Austrian writer and theater critic
- Willi Henkelmann (1899–1928), German motorcycle racer
- Willi Herren (* 1975), German actor and entertainer
- Willi Heyn (1910– ??), German obstacle runner
- Willi Hoss (1929–2003), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Willi Kollo (1904–1988), German composer and author
- Willi Laatsch (1905–1997), German soil and forest scientist
- Willi Landgraf (* 1968), German soccer player
- Willi Lausen (1901–1972), German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Willi Lemke (* 1946), German politician, Senator in Bremen
- Willi Ludwig (* 1955), German pool player
- Willi Neuberger (* 1946), German soccer player
- Willi Oelmüller (1930–1999), German philosopher
- Willi Scharf (1896–1971), German geologist
- Willi Scheidhauer (1924–2012), German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
- Willi Schwabe (1915–1991), German actor, singer and presenter
- Willi Seebauer (* 1946), German soccer player
- Willi Sitte (1921–2013), German painter
- Willi Steinhof (1879–1967), German soccer player and sports official
- Willi Stoph (1914–1999), German politician
- Willi Thomczyk (* 1953), German actor, musician, painter and theater maker
- Willi Wegewitz (1898–1996), German archaeologist and local history researcher
- Willi Weiskirch (1923–1996), German politician
- Willi Weitzel (* 1972), German journalist and television presenter
- Willi Weyer (1917–1987), German sports official and politician
- Willi Zurbrüggen (* 1949), German literary translator and writer
family name
- Andreas Willi (* 1972), British Indo-Europeanist of Swiss origin
- Daniel Willi (1696–1755), Swiss Reformed clergyman and Pietist
- Dominikus Willi (1844–1913), (civil: Martin Carl Willi ), German Cistercian Abbot and Bishop of Limburg (Lahn)
- Georg Willi (* 1959), Austrian politician
- Hans Jakob Willi (1772–1804), Swiss, leader of the rebels in the buck war in 1804
- Heinrich Willi (1900–1971), Swiss pediatrician
- Herbert Willi (* 1956), Austrian composer
- Ina Willi-Plein (* 1942), German Protestant theologian
- Jean Willi (* 1945), Swiss painter, draftsman and writer
- Johannes Willi (1882–1952), Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- Joseph Michael Willi SJ (1824–1897), Swiss Jesuit, missionary to India and educator
- Jürg Willi (1934–2019), Swiss specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Kaspar Willi (1823–1879), Swiss Benedictine, bishop of Chur and councilor
- Magda Willi (* 1978), Swiss stage and costume designer
- Martin Willi (* 1964), Swiss actor, director and author
- Monika Willi (* 1968), Austrian film editor
- Reinhard Willi (* 1951), German soccer player
- Thomas Willi (* 1942), Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar
- Tobias Willi (organist) (* 1976), Swiss organist and university professor
- Tobias Willi (* 1979), German soccer player
pseudonym
- Willi Ninja (1961–2006; real name: William Roscoe Leake ), American dancer, choreographer and artist
Others
- the Swedish children's book series Willi Wiberg
- a nationwide service in Neumünster , Schleswig-Holstein
- the gray seal from the listening number Hafenbecken Willi (gray seal)
- the nickname for the Karlsberg (Berlin) , on which the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower stands.
- Enterprise Willi , secret operation in World War II
See also
- Villi
- Willie
- Wili
- Wiktionary: Willi - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
