Gilma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xilma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gilma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #484 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 10 | Gilma | 78 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,199 | 1 in 29K | 7.8K | Gilma | 68 |
| SV El Salvador | #377 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Gilma | 21 |
| HN Honduras | #354 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Gilma | 20 |
| US United States | — | 2,503 | 1 in 133K | 2.5K | Gilma | 161 |
| GT Guatemala | #523 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Gilma | 15 |
| NI Nicaragua | #330 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Gilma | 11 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gilma Jiménezb. 1956COColombian politician (1956–2013)
- Gilma Luqueb. 1977MXMexican writer
- Gilma Martirb. 2002SVSalvadoran association football player
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.8K | #2,515 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 7.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.8K | #1,207 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.3K | #2,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,420 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Gilma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Gilma in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilma.
- How do you pronounce Gilma?
- A machine transcription gives /xilma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Gilma a male or female name?
- Gilma 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 Gilma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,199 people named Gilma in 2022, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilma compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Gilma is the 484th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gilma?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilmaThe 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, “Gilma” — the 484th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.