Gilmar
Gilmar was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gilmar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gilmar mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Gilmar is “a male given name”
Uncertain. Several possibilities are given, including:
From the female names Childemara, Cildemara, Quildemara, and Gilmara, which carry the term chile or hile, meaning “combat”, and maere, meaning “illustrious, brilliant, famous”.
From the English name Giselmaer, itself from the Germanic name Gisilbert, from the terms gisal/gisil (“hostage”) and bertha (“famous, illustrious”).
From the Breton names Gille and Moire/Maire, abbreviated as Gilmer, Gilmore, and Gilmore, meaning “serf of the Virgin Mary”.
From Agilmar, combining agil/agli (“sword”) with maere (“illustrious, brilliant, famous”).
/ʒiwˈma(ʁ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gilmar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,298, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1999, the peak
Gilmar peaked in 1999, when 11 boys were given it, #5,775 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,298 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,995 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,713 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,939 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,207 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,542 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,000 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,234 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,696 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,775 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 | #7,074 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,823 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,288 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,148 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,578 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,979 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,889 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,589 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,580 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,462 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gilmar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gilmar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gilmar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gilmar, and how old are they?
An estimated 131 Americans named Gilmar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 942 people named Gilmar (27 women and girls, 915 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,321 babies since 1880, Gilmar is the second most given (10% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gilmar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gilmar and names like it
- Compare Gilmar and GilmerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGilmar peaked in 1999.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Gilmar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Gilmar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gilmar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.