Hilma
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: a female given name popular in the 19th century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɪɫmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 3rd most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 368K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 579
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
6,877 people
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hilma is read(measured from records)
Hilma is one spelling over 5 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.
- Finnish53%
a female given name popular in the 19th century
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English40%
A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilma in Portuguese.
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilma in Spanish.
- Indonesian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilma in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Hilma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 6,877 | 1 in 1.5K | 6.9K | Hilma | 34 |
| NA Namibia | #3 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 579 | 5 | Hilma | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,335 | 1 in 1.3K | 28K | Hilma | 22 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,659 | 1 in 80K | 3.1K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 904 | 1 in 368K | 892 | Hilma | 162 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 118 | 1 in 43K | 118 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 44 | 1 in 8K | 44 | Hilma | 15 |
6,877 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Hilma is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Hilma kan vara en femininform till Hilmar (→ Hilmer). Det kan även vara en smekform till → Vilhelmina. Ett tidigt litterärt exempel är idealgestalten Hilma i Johan Henrik Kellgrens Den nya skapelsen (1790) med flera dikter. Hilma har varit ett popu lärt namn det senaste årtiondet. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 21 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, um 1900 aufgekommener weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In got, romanization of 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰
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)
- Emma Chadwickb. 1855SEnot in their usual namepainter from Sweden (1855-1932)
- Hilma Angered Strandbergb. 1855SEwriter (1855-1927)
- Hilma Lindbergb. 1856SESwedish pianist (1856-1921)
- Hilma af Klintb. 1862SESwedish artist (1862–1944)
- Hilma Boreliusb. 1869SESwedish literary historian and suffragette
- Hilma Gabriella Jahnssonb. 1882FIFinnish lawyer (1882-1975)
- Hilma Granqvistb. 1890FIFinnish anthropologist (1890–1972)
- Hilma Contrerasb. 1913DODominican Republic writer (1913–2006)
- Hilma Wolitzerb. 1930USAmerican novelist
- Hilma Caldeirab. 1972BRBrazilian volleyball 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 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28K | #81 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6.9K | #510 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.1K | #4,573 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.1K | #2,071 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #4,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 892 | #13,386 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 118 | #1,951 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 48 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 44 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Hilma come from?
- A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hilma a male or female name?
- Hilma 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.
- What does the name Hilma mean?
- In Finnish, a female given name popular in the 19th century
- In which country does Hilma have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Hilma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilma.
- How common is the name Hilma?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,877 people named Hilma, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Hilma compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Hilma is the 3rd most common given name of 327 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Hilma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɪɫmə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Hilma?
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/hilmaThe 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, “Hilma” — the 3rd most common given name in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.