Willi

Willi is a short form of the male given name William or Willibald.

The name is also written Willy.

Dissemination

The name Willi (Willy ) was around the turn of the century to the 20th century, so the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II a few times among the ten most common boy name of the vintage. After the end of the imperial period, its popularity declined more and more. From the mid-sixties, he was hardly ever used. Since the new millennium, however, is again observed a moderate increase in its popularity.

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Willi Arlt (1919-1947), German football player
  • Willi Bäuerle (1926-1996), politician, Member of Parliament
  • Willi Beuster (1908-1981), politician, Member of Parliament
  • Willi Bohn (1900-1985), German journalist and politician
  • Willi Butollo (* 1944 ), Austrian psychologist and psychotherapist
  • Willi Dürrschnabel (* 1945), German football player
  • Willi Entenmann (1943-2012), German football player and coach
  • Willi Forst (1903-1980) Austrian film director, actor and singer
  • Willi Frommelt ( born 1952 ), the Liechtenstein skier
  • Willi Gerdau (1929-2011), German football player
  • Willi Gerk (* 1990), German actor
  • Willi Göttert (1911-2008), German Lutheran pastor and peace activist
  • Willi Graf (1918-1943), member of the resistance group White Rose
  • Willi Handl (1872-1920), Austrian writer and theater critic
  • Willi Henkel man (1899-1928), German motorcycle racer
  • Willi Herren (* 1975), German actor and entertainer
  • Willi Laatsch (1905-1997), German soil scientists and forestry scientists
  • Willi Landgraf ( b. 1968 ), German football player
  • Willi Lausen (1901-1972), politician, Member of Parliament
  • Willi Lemke (* 1946), Bremen Senator for Education
  • Willi Neuberger ( born 1946 ), German football player
  • Willi Oelmüller (1930-1999), German philosopher
  • Willi Schwabe (1915-1991), German actor, singer and presenter
  • Willi Seebauer (* 1946), German football player
  • Willi Sitte (1921-2013), German painter
  • Willi Steinhofgründe (1879-1967), German football player and sports official
  • Willi Stoph (1914-1999), German politician
  • Willi Thomczyk (* 1953), German actor, musician, painter and theater director
  • Willi Wegewitz (1898-1996), German archaeologist and local historian
  • Willi Weiskirch (1923-1996), German politician
  • Willi Weitzel (* 1972), German journalist and television presenter
  • Willi Zurbrüggen (* 1949), German literary translator and writer

Family name

  • Andreas Willi (born 1972 ), British Indo-Europeanist Swiss origin
  • Daniel Willi (1696-1755), Swiss Reformed clergyman and Pietist
  • Dominic Willi (1844-1913), (born: Carl Martin Willi ), abbot of the Cistercian abbey Marienstatt and Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Limburg an der Lahn
  • George Willi (* 1959), Austrian politician
  • Hans Jacob Willi (1772-1804), Swiss, leader of the rebellion in Bock war in 1804
  • Heinrich Willi (1900-1971), Swiss pediatrician
  • Herbert Willi (* 1956 ), Austrian composer
  • Jean Willi ( born 1945 ), Swiss painter, draftsman and writer
  • Joseph Michael Willi SJ (1824-1897), Swiss Jesuit missionary and educator India
  • Jürg Willi ( born 1934 ), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapy
  • Kaspar Willi (1823-1879), Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Chur
  • Magda Willi (born 1978 ), Swiss set designer and costume designer
  • Tobias Willi (* 1979), German football player

Pseudonym

  • Willi Ninja, (1961-2006), (born: William Roscoe Leake ), American dancer, choreographer and artist

Others

  • Swedish children's book series Willi Wiberg
  • A supra-regional service in Neumünster, Schleswig -Holstein
  • The gray seal from the Hörnummer harbor Willi ( gray seal )
  • The nickname for the Karl Berg ( Berlin), to which the Kaiser -Wilhelm- tower stands.
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