Wilhelmena
Wilhelmena was last recorded in 1963, when 6 babies were given it; 769 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilhelmena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wilhelmena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,573, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1919, the peak
Wilhelmena peaked in 1919, when 26 girls were given it, #1,601 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #6,573 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,514 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,557 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,185 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,828 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,813 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,601 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,027 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,196 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,278 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 16 | #2,650 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,995 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,326 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,765 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,479 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,594 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,507 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,857 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,980 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,839 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,895 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,037 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,932 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,312 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,258 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,843 | 18.1 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,770 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,536 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,033 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,419 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,567 | 23.1 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,640 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,833 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,427 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,470 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,117 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,869 | 18.4 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,837 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,372 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,923 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,949 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,601 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,370 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,307 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,580 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,380 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,661 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,598 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,618 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,858 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,930 | 20.2 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,385 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,922 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,653 | 25.4 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,575 | 25.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilhelmena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilhelmena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilhelmena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilhelmena, and how old are they?
An estimated 193 Americans named Wilhelmena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 74 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Wilhelmena (191 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Wilhelmena born?
The states with the most babies named Wilhelmena are South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 319 | not ranked | 19.9× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Wilhelmena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wilhelmena is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 19.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Wilhelmena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 16,738 babies since 1880, Wilhelmena is the fourth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 146 babies recorded by SSA was a Wilhelmena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilhelmina | 13,099 | 141 | 1916 |
| Wilhelmenia | 1,125 | under 5 | 1944 |
| Wilhemina | 956 | 5 | 1960 |
| Wilhelmena | 769 | under 5 | 1919 |
| Wilhelmine | 525 | under 5 | 1896 |
| Wilhemenia | 264 | under 5 | 1953 |
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 Wilhelmena
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 Wilhelmena and names like it
- Compare Wilhelmena and WilhelminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sWilhelmena peaked in 1919.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilhelmena since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Wilhelmena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilhelmena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.