# Wilma (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilma/  
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 | 140,855 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 754 / 140,101 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 83, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 5,057 |
| 2012 | 25 | 5,545 |
| 2013 | 32 | 4,536 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,433 |
| 2015 | 32 | 4,483 |
| 2016 | 23 | 5,781 |
| 2017 | 34 | 4,300 |
| 2018 | 42 | 3,672 |
| 2019 | 36 | 4,070 |
| 2020 | 38 | 3,838 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,501 |
| 2022 | 43 | 3,648 |
| 2023 | 34 | 4,269 |
| 2024 | 37 | 4,034 |
| 2025 | 41 | 3,705 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 19 | 1,681 |
| 1943 | 12 | 2,275 |
| 1944 | 17 | 1,734 |
| 1945 | 10 | 2,391 |
| 1946 | 11 | 2,400 |
| 1947 | 7 | 3,368 |
| 1948 | 9 | 2,783 |
| 1950 | 7 | 3,320 |
| 1951 | 5 | 4,242 |
| 1952 | 11 | 2,509 |
| 1953 | 6 | 3,788 |
| 1954 | 6 | 3,816 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,543 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,557 |
| 1961 | 10 | 2,893 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,488 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,771 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 威爾瑪 /威尔玛
- Spanish: Vilma

## People named Wilma

- Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (1940–1994)
- Wilma Heltelä, Finnish pole vaulter
- Wilma Elles, German actress
- Wilma Lipp, Austrian soprano (1925-2019)
- Wilma Labate, film director
- Wilma de Faria, 52nd Governor of Rio Grande do Norte (1945–2017)
- Wilma van Hofwegen, Dutch swimmer
- Wilma Burgess, American musician
- Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer

## 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.