# Wilhelmine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilhelmine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 525 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 525 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 20 | 1,801 |
| 1917 | 11 | 2,870 |
| 1918 | 15 | 2,372 |
| 1919 | 14 | 2,506 |
| 1920 | 11 | 3,089 |
| 1921 | 10 | 3,393 |
| 1922 | 13 | 2,775 |
| 1923 | 7 | 4,366 |
| 1924 | 9 | 3,657 |
| 1925 | 7 | 4,419 |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,737 |
| 1931 | 5 | 4,953 |
| 1934 | 7 | 3,795 |
| 1937 | 5 | 4,909 |
| 2023 | 6 | 15,079 |

## People named Wilhelmine

- Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Baltic German painter (1824-1902)
- Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, German opera soprano (1804–1860)
- Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan, Duchess of Sagan (1781–1839)
- Wilhelmine von Hillern, German actress and writer (1836–1916)
- Wilhelmine Reichard, 19th century aeronaut
- Wilhelmine Christiane of Saxe-Weimar, (1658-1712)
- Alexandra Feodorovna, empress consort of Russia from 1825 to 1855 (1798–1860)
- Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (1898-1981)
- Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Bavarian Royal (1808-1892)
- Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, British Royal (1833–1897), mother of Mary of Teck
- Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria (1767-1790)
- Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, German aristocrat (1786–1850), Viceregal consort of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1818 to 18

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.