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Gilmar

Boys' name

Possibly hostage + famous, illustrious

Gilmar has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Gilmar, 2023

1 in 552,000

Gilmar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gilmar: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hostage + famous, illustrious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gilmar means

Gilmar may mean “hostage + famous, illustrious”, associated with gisal/gisil and bertha.

Origin, language, and formation

Gilmar is used in Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Gilmar is pronounced /ʒiwˈma(ʁ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Gilmar between 1989 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,775 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gilmar?

Gilmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gilmar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gilmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gilmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gilmar was born before 1999 — so the typical Gilmar is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Gilmar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (11)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,775
1999

Spellings of Gilmar

Gilmar is not the most common spelling — Wilmer is, with 44.1% against Gilmar's 0.37%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gilmar around the world

Where Gilmar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1973–1973
    #2,270
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gilmar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,775
1999
Peak year
1999
11 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gilmar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gilmar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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