Wilhemina
#17,128 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wilhemina has been given to 956 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #17,128 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 35 recorded.
Babies named Wilhemina, 2025
1 in 663,000
Wilhemina over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Wilhemina?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #17,128
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wilhemina sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilhemina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wilheminas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilhemina was born before 1951 — so the typical Wilhemina is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 23.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 510
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (226).
Is Wilhemina 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
- +421
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,739
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1960 (35)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Wilhemina
Wilhemina is not the most common spelling — Wilhelmina is, with 82.6% against Wilhemina's 6.0%.
- Wilhelmina82.6%13,094
- Wilhemina6.0%956
- Wilhelmena4.9%769
- Wilhelmine3.3%525
- Willamina3.2%508
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 Wilhemina is used
Across 1910–2025, Wilhemina was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 190,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Virginia1 in —
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. Wilhemina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Wilhemina around the world
Where Wilhemina 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.
- England & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Wilhemina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wilhemina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wilhemina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.