Williamina

Girls' name

Will + helmet, through William

Williamina has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1914, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Williamina, 1914

1 in 283,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Williamina: meaning, origin, and history

Will + helmet, through William

Germanic languages

What Williamina means

Williamina belongs to the name family reached through Williamina → William. Its meaning is “will + helmet”.

Origin, language, and formation

Williamina is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include William.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Williamina between 1914 and 1914. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1914; its best national rank was #4,183 in 1914.

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 Williamina?

Williamina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1914, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1914: 1 in 283,000; 5 of 1,416,309 births
Among girls only: 1 in 152,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1914: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 196,343 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Williamina 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 1914 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 196,343 children born in 1914 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Williamina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Williaminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Williamina was born before 1914 — so the typical Williamina is around 111 today.

Median birth year: 1914; About 111 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Williamina 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1914 (5)
Years since peak: 111; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,183; 1914

Spellings of Williamina

Williamina is not the most common spelling — Willamina is, with 99.0% against Williamina's 0.97%.

Willamina99.0%508
Williamina0.97%5

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.

Williamina around the world

Where Williamina 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.

Scotland
1974–1986
#438
in 1986
South Australia
1972–1972
#722
in 1972

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Williamina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,183; 1914
Peak year: 1914; 5 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1914
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Williamina

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

Sibling names for Williamina

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Orrin Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney

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