Wilmer

given name · Latin script

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

Wilmer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 26th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from the Old English male personal name Wilmær, literally ‘will-famous’.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 321(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 506
  • VEVenezuela1 in 615

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.

Venezuela (measured from records)

46,550 people

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 321 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the Old English male personal name Wilmær, literally ‘will-famous’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wilmer 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 Wilmer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#11646,5501 in 61547KWilmer68
PE Peru#168≈46,000 est.≈1 in 694—Wilmer94
CO Colombia#223≈40,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K26Wilmer132
EC Ecuador#15633,4011 in 50633KWilmer57
HN Honduras#26≈29,000 est.≈1 in 321—Wilmer52
NI Nicaragua#90≈7,600 est.≈1 in 812—Wilmer26

46,550 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry 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)

Wilmer is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Wïlmër, Wïlmëř, Wìlmér, Wîlmër, Wïlmêr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Wílmer

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Finland, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Wílmer

  • Belarusian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Уилмер

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Wílmer

44 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)

Wilmer 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, Germanic name from wil ‘will’ + mēr ‘famous’.

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

  • In English, Teutonic: similar to William; resolute mind.

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

  • From an Old English personal name, derived from wil ‘will’, ‘desire’ + mz&r ‘famous’. This died out in the Middle Ages, but gave rise to a surname before it did so. The modern given name is probably a transferred use of that surname, perhaps adopted in particular as a masculine form of Wilma.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Wilmer är en nederländsk eller engelsk form av det tyska namnet Vilmar, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt will(i)a ’vilja’ och → -mar ’bekant, berömd’. Det har varit ett populärt namn under flera årtionden. Namnet bärs också av det svenska rockbandet Wilmer X (aktiva från 1970-tal till 2020-tal). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 6 april.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, patronymisch aus dem Rufnamen Wilmar/Willmar mit abgeschwächtem Zweitglied -mer (< ahd. māri 'berühmt'); 579 Träger

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

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)

18001850190019502000Wilmer McLean, b. 1814Wilmer L. Barrow, b. 1903Wilmer Allison, b. 1904Wilmer Mizell, b. 1930Wilmer Ruperti, b. 1959Wilmer Cabrera, b. 1967Wilmer López, b. 1971Wilmer Calderon, b. 1975Wilmer Valderrama, b. 1980Wilmer Font, b. 1990

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 64 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Wilmer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—47K#41
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202433K#70
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202452—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—26#95

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Wilmer mean, and where does it come from?
from the Old English male personal name Wilmær, literally ‘will-famous’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Wilmer have the most bearers?
In Venezuela, the national register counted about 47 thousand people named Wilmer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilmer.
Is Wilmer a male or female name?
Wilmer is a male 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 Wilmer?
In the etymology graph, Wilmar and Vilmer are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Wilmer?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 46,550 people named Wilmer, about 1 in 615 residents.
How common is Wilmer compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Wilmer is the 116th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.

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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, “Wilmer” — the 116th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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