Wilhelmina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Teutonic; feminine form of William; "a strong resolute protector"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wilhelmina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 59(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 22K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59 (inferred from the name graph)
294,573 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Teutonic; feminine form of William; "a strong resolute protector"
Sources 1
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Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wilhelmina is read(measured from records)
Wilhelmina is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English66%
Teutonic; feminine form of William; "a strong resolute protector"
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A female given name from German, masculine equivalent Wilhelm.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
resolute protector (German)
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- Dutch10%
a female given name, masculine equivalent Willem
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilhelmina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #402 | 294,573 | 1 in 59 | 290K | Wilhelmina | 81 |
| ZA South Africa | #534 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Wilhelmina | 33 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Wilhelmina | 40 |
| US United States | — | 4,940 | 1 in 67K | 4.9K | Wilhelmina | 263 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,772 | 1 in 3.7K | 2.8K | — | 8 |
| GH Ghana | #402 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Wilhelmina | 25 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,616 | 1 in 3.4K | 2.6K | — | 6 |
294,573 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Wilhelmina 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.
Feminine version of Wilhelm, the German form of William, formed with the Latinate suffix -ina. This name was introduced to the English-speaking world from Germany in the roth century. It is now very rarely used. Pet forms: Minnie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Feminine form of wiLHELM.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuthb. 1709DEnot in their usual nameMargravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709-1758)
- Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlandsb. 1774NLnot in their usual namequeen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837 (1774–1837)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoffb. 1797DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer and writer (1797–1848)
- Princess Marianne of the Netherlandsb. 1810NLnot in their usual nameDutch royal; youngest child of King William I of the Netherlands and Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (1810–1883)
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlandsb. 1880NLQueen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)
- Juliana of the Netherlandsb. 1909NLnot in their usual nameQueen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
- Wilhelmina von Bremenb. 1909USathletics competitor (1909–1976)
- Beatrix der Nederlandenb. 1938NLnot in their usual nameQueen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013 (born 1938)
- Jane Seymourb. 1951GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Princess Ariane of the Netherlandsb. 2007NLnot in their usual nameyoungest daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Wilhelmina mean, and where does it come from?
- Teutonic; feminine form of William; "a strong resolute protector" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Wilhelmina?
- In the etymology graph, Guillermina, Willa and Minna are forms of the same name in other languages; Mina, Vilma and Wilma are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Wilhelmina have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 295 thousand people named Wilhelmina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilhelmina.
- Where is Wilhelmina most common?
- Wilhelmina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 people carrying it.
- Is Wilhelmina a male or female name?
- Wilhelmina 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 Wilhelmina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 294,573 people named Wilhelmina, about 1 in 59 residents.
- How common is Wilhelmina compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Wilhelmina is the 402nd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilhelminaThe 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, “Wilhelmina” — the 402nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.