Wilma

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: nickname from Wilhelmina; "a woman or wife"

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/wɪɫmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wilma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 592(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 851
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wilma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈510,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 592 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

WilmaLatin(measured from records)
וילמהHebrew(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)

Contraction of Wilhelma, i.e. Guillermina.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Wilma is read(measured from records)

Wilma is one spelling over 3 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%

    nickname from Wilhelmina; "a woman or wife"

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

    A female given name from the Germanic languages, a contraction of Wilhelmina.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish12%

    Contraction of Wilhelma, i.e. Guillermina.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese7.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Wilma in Portuguese.

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)

Wilma 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.

Where Wilma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈510,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Wilma7
BR Brazil—124,601as Vilma1 in 1.7K146K—4
PH Philippines#628≈80,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Wilma84
US United States#57949,3981 in 6.7K49KWilma383
NL Netherlands#119≈20,000 est.≈1 in 8516.2KWilma99
SE Sweden#26817,2461 in 59217KWilma77
EC Ecuador—12,472as Vilma1 in 1.4K12KWilma11
FI Finland—8,550as Vilma1 in 65211KWilma19
CR Costa Rica—4,099as Vilma1 in 1.2K4.1K——

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wilma is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Wílma, Wilmá, Wîlma, Wïlmä, Wïlmå

  • Thai given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Laos, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Vilma, วลมา, วัลมา, วิลม่า, วิลมา

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Wilma is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Short feminine form of Wilhelmine/Wilhelm, from Germanic wil ‘will’ + helm ‘protection’.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Féminin/variante de Guillaume; du germ. will + helm, « volonté/protection ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Diminutif de Wilhelmine; origine germanique, de "volonté" et "protection".

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

18001850190019502000Wilma Neruda, b. 1840Wilma Lipp, b. 1925Wilma Montesi, b. 1932Wilma Pelly, b. 1937Wilma Rudolph, b. 1940Wilma Mankiller, b. 1945Wilma Goich, b. 1945Wilma Labate, b. 1949Wilma Elles, b. 1986Wilma Heltelä, b. 1998

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)

InformalHi Wilma,

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 87 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Wilma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049K#914
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—25K#1,197
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202224K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24K#939
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#251
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202013K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—6.2K#587
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.8K#365
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.3K#504
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020228#914
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—159#939

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Wilma come from?
Contraction of Wilhelma, i.e. Guillermina. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
What does the name Wilma mean?
In English, nickname from Wilhelmina; "a woman or wife"
Is Wilma a male or female name?
Wilma 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.
In which country does Wilma have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 509 thousand people named Wilma in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilma.
Where is Wilma most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wilma is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 592 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What are other forms of the name Wilma?
In the etymology graph, Mina, Vilma and Minnie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Wilhelmina.
How common is the name Wilma?
In the United States, the national register counted 49,398 people named Wilma in 2020, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
How common is Wilma compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Wilma is the 119th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Wilma?
A machine transcription gives /wɪɫmə/ (IPA) for English.

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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, “Wilma” — the 119th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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