Hílmer
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hílmer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 1,167 people, counted by Skatteverket. Recorded meaning: contracted form of Hillmeier, which is a topographic name derived from Middle High German hUlwe ‘water-hole’ -l- meier ‘(tenant) farmer’.
- SESweden1 in 8.7K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 122K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,167 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hilmer in US United States, BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)contracted form of Hillmeier, which is a topographic name derived from Middle High German hUlwe ‘water-hole’ -l- meier ‘(tenant) farmer’.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hílmer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,167 | 1 in 8.7K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 648 | Hilmer | 67 |
| DK Denmark | 48 | 1 in 122K | 62 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 202 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 22 | 1 in 9.6M | 26 | Hilmer | 18 |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
1,167 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hílmer mean, and where does it come from?
- contracted form of Hillmeier, which is a topographic name derived from Middle High German hUlwe ‘water-hole’ -l- meier ‘(tenant) farmer’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- Is Hílmer a male or female name?
- Hílmer is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Hílmer?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Hílmer, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Denmark, Finland and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hílmer most common?
- Hílmer is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hílmer?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,167 people named Hílmer, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%ADlmerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hílmer” — ranked 1525th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.