Willemina

#10,865 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Willem

Willemina has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #10,865 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Willemina, 2025

1 in 368,000

Willemina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Willemina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Willem

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Willemina means

Willemina is a feminine form of Willem.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Willemina → Willem → Willem → Willem → *Willihelm. The family’s meaning is “will (n.) + helmet”, recorded in Old Dutch with the source elements willo and helm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Willem.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Willemina between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,595 in 1926.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,788 in 2015 to #10,865 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 Willemina?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,865; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Willemina 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Willemina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Willeminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Willemina was born before 2019 — so the typical Willemina is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 53; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Willemina 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: +6,685; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +923; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2015 (9)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 49.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,595; 1926

Spellings of Willemina

Willemina is not the most common spelling — Wilhelmina is, with 83.4% against Willemina's 0.43%.

Wilhelmina83.4%13,094
Willena6.8%1,068
Wilhemina6.1%956
Willamina3.2%508
Willemina0.43%68

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.

Willemina around the world

Where Willemina 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.

South Australia
1990–1990
#691
in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Willemina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,865
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,595; 1926
Peak year: 2015; 9 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 68
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Willemina

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

Sibling names for Willemina

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Sydnie Rhianna Alysa Adelle Sydni Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Caesar Brennen Hamilton Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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