Wilhemina
Wilhemina was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,128 among girls’ names; 956 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilhemina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wilhemina?
#17,128 among girls’ names, 2025
Wilhemina entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,128 in 2025.
35 babies in 1960, the peak
Wilhemina peaked in 1960, when 35 girls were given it, #1,951 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,128 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,549 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,379 | 4.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,389 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,695 | 6.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,245 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,912 | 5.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,451 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,252 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,396 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #10,367 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,932 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,544 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,877 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,043 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,746 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,263 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,993 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,333 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,992 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,976 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,803 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,487 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,090 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,173 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,917 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 35 | #2,002 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,951 | 17.3 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,050 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,447 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,344 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,386 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,059 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,776 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,359 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,325 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,573 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,182 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,391 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,230 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,281 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,423 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,381 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,678 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,037 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,727 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,405 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,955 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,934 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,933 | 9.1 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,685 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,151 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,104 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,557 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,318 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,839 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,585 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,189 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,850 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,703 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,482 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,404 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,729 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,285 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,114 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,354 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,507 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,202 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,870 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,024 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,124 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,737 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,028 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,624 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,954 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,133 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,756 | 23.0 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,051 | 18.8 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,868 | 21.8 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,969 | 19.3 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,103 | 41.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilhemina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilhemina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilhemina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilhemina, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Wilhemina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 559 people named Wilhemina (558 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,342 babies since 1880, Wilhemina is the second most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 189 babies (2.6%), the fourth most given that year.
| 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 |
| Willamina | 508 | 34 | 2023 |
| Wilhemenia | 264 | under 5 | 1953 |
| Wilmina | 153 | under 5 | 1915 |
| Willemina | 68 | 9 | 2015 |
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 Wilhemina
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 Wilhemina and names like it
- Compare Wilhemina and WilhelminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sWilhemina peaked in 1960.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilhemina since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Wilhemina.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilhemina alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.