Liam
[liːəm]Meaning
Irish short form of William
Background Story
Liam is the Irish short form of William, a clipping of the Irish Uilliam, which is the Irish-language adaptation of the Germanic William. It became popular in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and elsewhere in Europe and the Americas after that, and was the top ranked name for boys in the United States beginning in 2017. The name is also used in Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, Finnish, Galician, Germanic and Hungarian.
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