Telma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante gráfica de Thelma o femenino de Telmo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɛlmɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Telma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 2.1K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
53,549 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante gráfica de Thelma o femenino de Telmo.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Telma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #446 | 53,549 | 1 in 4K | 60K | Telma | 152 |
| AO Angola | #130 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 3 | Telma | 20 |
| PT Portugal | #157 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Telma | 95 |
| GT Guatemala | #262 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Telma | 24 |
| AR Argentina | #773 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 18 | Telma | 50 |
| HN Honduras | #222 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Telma | 20 |
| NI Nicaragua | #263 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Telma | 11 |
| IS Iceland | — | 281 | 1 in 1.2K | 281 | — | 2 |
53,549 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Telma is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Voluntariosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Talma Alyagon-Roseb. 1944ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli writer and political activist
- Telma Hopkinsb. 1948USAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
- Telma Luzzanib. 1951ARArgentinian writer and journalist
- Talma Hendlerb. 1955ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli psychiatrist and neuroscientist
- Telma Ortiz Rocasolanob. 1973ESmiddle sister of queen Letizia of Spain
- Telma Ágústsdóttirb. 1977ISIcelandic singer
- Telma Santosb. 1983PTbadminton player
- Telma Björk Fjalarsdóttirb. 1984ISIcelandic basketball player (born 1984)
- Telma Monteirob. 1985PTPortuguese judoka
- Telma Madeirab. 1999PTPortuguese model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 60K | #680 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 60K | #252 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 54K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 53K | #540 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 281 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 234 | #540 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 55 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 4 | #3,481 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #90 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Telma?
- A machine transcription gives /tɛlmɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Telma mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante gráfica de Thelma o femenino de Telmo.
- Is Telma a male or female name?
- Telma is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Telma?
- In the etymology graph, Thelma is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Telma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Telma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled telma.
- Where is Telma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Telma is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Telma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 53,549 people named Telma in 2022, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Telma compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Telma is the 446th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/telmaThe 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, “Telma” — the 446th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.