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Wilmot

Boys' name

Feminine form of William

Wilmot has been given to 459 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1916, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Wilmot, 1993

1 in 754,000

Wilmot over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wilmot: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of William

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wilmot means

Wilmot is a feminine form of William.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Wilmot is used in Medieval English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wilmot → William. The family’s meaning is “will + helmet”, recorded in English with the source elements wiljô and helmaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include William.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 454 boys were recorded with the name Wilmot between 1906 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,245 in 1906.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Wilmot between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #5,298 in 1917.

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.

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How common is Wilmot?

Wilmot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only
1 in 392,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wilmot 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilmot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wilmots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilmot was born before 1925 — so the typical Wilmot is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
43
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1910s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Wilmot 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 1916 (27)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,245
1906

Spellings of Wilmot

Wilmot is not the most common spelling — Wilson is, with 64.4% against Wilmot's 0.60%.

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 Wilmot is used

Across 1910–2025, Wilmot was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 500,295 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Wilmot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wilmot 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
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Best rank ever
#1,245
1906
Peak year
1916
27 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
454
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,298
1917
Peak year
1917
5 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1917
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wilmot

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

WillowWilmarWilkesWilmanWilianWilverWillsonWiliamWilliaWilmonWilkieWilleyWillimWillemWildeWillliamWillamWilferdWilbornWilhelmWilleWildonWilbernWillmer

Sibling names for Wilmot

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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