Wylma
Wylma was last recorded in 1953, when 6 babies were given it; 542 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wylma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wylma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,663, in 1953; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1920, the peak
Wylma peaked in 1920, when 33 girls were given it, #1,406 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 6 | #5,663 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,900 | 3.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,233 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,285 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,990 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,546 | 4.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,614 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,020 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,203 | 7.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,935 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 7 | #3,791 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,845 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,149 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,443 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,272 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,827 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,488 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,650 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,390 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,958 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,696 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,472 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,189 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,132 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,780 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,184 | 15.0 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,984 | 17.0 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,406 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,634 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,205 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,336 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,737 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,670 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,260 | 32.8 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,881 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,839 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,654 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,136 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,758 | 23.0 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,815 | 22.0 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,587 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,039 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,464 | 29.2 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,591 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wylma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wylma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wylma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wylma, and how old are they?
An estimated 56 Americans named Wylma 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 113 people named Wylma (110 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 95 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above 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).
How common is the spelling Wylma?
Wylma is a less common spelling of Wilma: SSA has recorded 542 Wylma and 140,855 Wilma since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 142,070 babies since 1880, Wylma is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 41 babies recorded by SSA was a Wylma (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Wylma
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 Wylma and names like it
- Compare Wylma and WilmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWylma peaked in 1920.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wylma since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Wylma.
- Names starting with WMost given first.