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Vilma

#7,859 in 2025Girls' name

Will + helmet, through Wilma

Vilma has been given to 4,989 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #7,859 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 213 recorded.

Babies named Vilma, 2025

1 in 237,000

Vilma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vilma: meaning, origin, and history

Will + helmet, through Wilma

German and English

What Vilma means

Vilma belongs to the name family reached through Vilma → Wilma → Wilhelmina → Wilhelm → *Wiljahelmaz. Its meaning is “will + helmet”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vilma is used in Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Slovak and additional language sections. Its origins include German and English.

Vilma comes through German Wilma.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wilhelma, Vilmantė, Vilmantas, Vilhelmas, Wilma, Wilhelmina, Wilhelm and *Wiljahelmaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Vilma is pronounced [ˈvɪlma].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,989 girls were recorded with the name Vilma between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 213 in 1927; its best national rank was #478 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,064 in 2020 to #7,859 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,961 in 2015 to #7,859 in 2025.

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 Vilma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,859
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vilma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vilma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vilmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vilma was born before 1955 — so the typical Vilma is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,675
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (952).

Is Vilma 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
−1,915
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,795
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−898
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 1927 (213)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#478
1927

Spellings of Vilma

Vilma is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 14.3% against Vilma's 0.44%.

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.

Where Vilma is used

Across 1910–2025, Vilma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 35,683 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 12,500
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 25,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vilma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vilma around the world

Where Vilma 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
    1922–2025
    #5,434
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1944–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Vilma

People whose public names include Vilma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vilma in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vilma. Linked forms have their own page here.

ValmaVelmaWilmaVilbmáVilhelmaVilhelminaVilhelmine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vilma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,859
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,795
Best rank ever
#478
1927
Peak year
1927
213 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,989
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Vilma

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

PalmaSalmaZulmaZelmaSelmaHilmaDelmaVillaElmaNelmaVelmaTelmaVilaIlmaBelmaWilmaHelmaWylmaSulmaValmaWillmaVildaAlmaGilma

Names with a curve like Vilma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vilma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Vilma

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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