Vilhelmina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vilhelmina är en femininform till → Vilhelm

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

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 6.2K
  • ISIceland1 in 10K

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)

4,430 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Vilhelmína in IS Iceland.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Vilhelmina är en femininform till → Vilhelm. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 26 maj, till minne av Fredrika av Baden (1781–1826), Gustav iv Adolfs drottning, som också hette Dorotea Vilhelmina. Namnen → Fredrika, → Dorotea och Vilhelmina gavs även till tre socknar i Lappland.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vilhelmina 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 Vilhelmina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden4,4301 in 2.3K4.4KVilhelmina20
FI Finland9031 in 6.2K9.2KVilhelmina8
LT Lithuania≈85 est.≈1 in 32Klisted——
IS Iceland341 in 10K34Vilhelmína8
LV Latvia231 in 82K23——

4,430 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the lt-vlkk-vardai register. 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)

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

  • Croatian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Вилхелмина

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Vilhelmīna, Viļheļmina

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вильгельмина, Вільгельміна, Wilhelmina, Wilhelmine, Vil'Gel'Mina

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Australia, Philippines

    Also written Vilhelmína

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Vilhelmína

26 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)

Vilhelmina 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.

  • Swedish form of WILHELMINA . Cognate: Danish, Norwegian: Vilhelmine. Pet form: Danish: Mine .

    as a word

  • In Swedish, a female given name from German Wilhelmina, masculine equivalent Vilhelm

    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)

12001400160018002000Guglielma de Bohême, b. 1216Wilhelmina Fundin, b. 1819Mina Karadžić, b. 1828Mina Carlson-Bredberg, b. 1857Annie Åkerhielm, b. 1869Mimmi Kanervo, b. 1870Julia Cæsar, b. 1885Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys, b. 1904Eila Hiltunen, b. 1922Vilhelmina Kaušilaitė, b. 1936

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 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Vilhelmina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9.2K#231
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.4K#665
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—903—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020173—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019171—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018160—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017152—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016144—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015141—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014139—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013121—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012116—

Reference works 3

  • 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 Vilhelmina mean?
Recorded meaning: Vilhelmina är en femininform till → Vilhelm.
Is Vilhelmina a male or female name?
Vilhelmina 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 are other forms of the name Vilhelmina?
In the etymology graph, Wilma, Minnie and Velma are forms of the same name in other languages; Vilma, Helmi and Miina are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Vilhelmina have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Vilhelmina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vilhelmina.
Where is Vilhelmina most common?
Vilhelmina is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vilhelmina?
In Sweden, the national register counted 4,430 people named Vilhelmina, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Vilhelmina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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