Vilma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Véase Wilma
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bilma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vilma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 47th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 319(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 464
- HNHonduras≈1 in 492
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 319 (inferred from the name graph)
124,601 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Véase Wilma.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vilma 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 | #273 | 124,601 | 1 in 1.7K | 146K | Vilma | 142 |
| PH Philippines | #315 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Vilma | 86 |
| PE Peru | #117 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Vilma | 81 |
| AR Argentina | #376 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2 | Vilma | 75 |
| SV El Salvador | #99 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 319 | — | Vilma | 46 |
| HN Honduras | #47 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 492 | — | Vilma | 43 |
| NI Nicaragua | #53 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 464 | — | Vilma | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 8,550 | 1 in 652 | 11K | Vilma | 17 |
124,601 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); the ar-renaper-nombres-nacimientos register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Vilma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin/variante de Guillaume; du germ. will + helm, « volonté/protection ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., nordische, italienische, ungarische ['vilmo] und englische ['vilma]
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Elmo della volontà
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Lithuanian, a female given name, a fairly popular name in Lithuania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Princess Wilhelmine of Badenb. 1788DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1788-1836)
- Vilma Hugonnaib. 1847HUfirst Hungarian female physician (1847–1922)
- Vilma Bánkyb. 1901HUHungarian-American film actress (1901–1991)
- Vilma Degischerb. 1911ATAustrian actress (1911–1992)
- Vilma Ebsenb. 1911USAmerican actress (1911-2007)
- Vilma Espin Guilloisb. 1930CUCuban politician (1930-2007)
- Wilma Rudolphb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican athlete (1940–1994)
- Vilma Tsakirib. 1949GRGreek actress
- Vilma Santosb. 1953PHFilipino actress and politician
- Vilma Cibulkováb. 1963CZCzech actress
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 94 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 146K | #333 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 125K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 124K | #262 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11K | #205 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 792 | #262 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 81 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #37,732 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2 | #4,848 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Vilma mean, and where does it come from?
- Véase Wilma. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Vilma?
- In the etymology graph, Mina, Wilma and Minnie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vilma?
- A machine transcription gives /bilma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vilma have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 125 thousand people named Vilma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vilma.
- Is Vilma a male or female name?
- Vilma 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.
- How common is the name Vilma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 124,601 people named Vilma in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Vilma compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vilma is the 273rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vilma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilmaThe 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, “Vilma” — the 273rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.