Wim
Just 29 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it since 2000: meeting one would stay with you. Germanic at root, Wim carries the sense of "resolute protection".
Wim Pronunciation
Wim is pronounced VEEM (/vim/).
What Wim means
Where Wim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wim comes from old Germanic naming stock. It grew as a short form of Willem, the Dutch name that English speakers know as William, and behind it sit two plain elements: willo, meaning will or resolve, and helm, meaning helmet or protection. Read together, they give the sense recorded here, resolute protection.
The name is short. In the Netherlands and Flanders it travels well on its own, and real bearers give it a face. Wim Wenders, the German film director behind Paris, Texas, carries it. So does Wim Kok, who served as Dutch prime minister from 1994 to 2002.
On a Polish class register, Wim would sit oddly among the longer local names. It reads as an import, three letters where Wilhelm gives seven. The old parts stay legible under the short shape, willo and helm, resolve and protection.
How many people are named Wim
1 in 736075 men in Poland is named Wim. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7759 among male names.
Wim as a middle name
Wim is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3027th, between Vinicio (11) and Witalij (11).
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#3025 Vikas11
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#3026 Vinicio11
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#3027 Wim11
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#3028 Witalij11
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#3029 Yamid11