Wilhelmine
Wilhelmine was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 525 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 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 Wilhelmine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wilhelmine mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Wilhelmine is “a female given name, a popular variant of Wilhelmina, masculine equivalent Wilhelm; diminutive forms Helmina, Helmine, Wilma, Minna”
/vɪlhɛlˈmiːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wilhelmine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,073, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1896, the peak
Wilhelmine peaked in 1896, when 20 girls were given it, #727 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #15,073 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,951 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,735 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,655 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,365 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 11 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,506 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,879 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,630 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,074 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,032 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 20 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 19 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 19 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 14 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 12 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 14 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 10 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 12 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 12 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 7 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 8 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 13 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 8 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 8 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 6 | #832 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilhelmine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilhelmine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilhelmine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilhelmine, and how old are they?
An estimated 10 Americans named Wilhelmine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Wilhelmine (228 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19.0 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,349 babies since 1880, Wilhelmine is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 146 babies recorded by SSA was a Wilhelmine (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 |
| Wilhemina | 956 | 5 | 1960 |
| Wilhelmena | 769 | under 5 | 1919 |
| Wilhelmine | 525 | under 5 | 1896 |
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 Wilhelmine
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 Wilhelmine and names like it
- Compare Wilhelmine and WilhelminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sWilhelmine peaked in 1896.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilhelmine since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Wilhelmine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1896The year the most babies were named Wilhelmine.
- Names starting with WMost given first.