Vilma

Where Vilma comes from

Vilma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1847
    Vilma Hugonnai born
    first Hungarian female physician
  2. 1901
    First appearance
    #1,679 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1927
    Peak, #477
    213 babies named Vilma — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1930
    Vilma Espin Guillois born
    Cuban politician
  5. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #734.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vilma Espin Guillois · Cuban politician, 1930–2007
  • Vilma Hugonnai · first Hungarian female physician, 1847–1922
  • Vilma Bánky · Hungarian-American film actress, 1901–1991
  • Vilma Santos · Filipino actress and politician, born 1953
  • Vilma Degischer · Austrian actress, 1911–1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.