Wilhelmina

Where Wilhelmina comes from

Borrowed from German Wilhelmina, equivalent to Wilhelm + -ina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Wilhelmina
  • German
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born
    Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #254 among girls — 36 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #215
    77 babies named Wilhelmina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1909
    Wilhelmina von Bremen born
    athletics competitor
  5. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,360.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from German, masculine equivalent Wilhelm.
Namesakes
  • Wilhelmina of the Netherlands · Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948, 1880–1962
  • Wilhelmina von Bremen · athletics competitor, 1909–1976
  • Wilhelmina Drucker · Dutch activist, editor, 1847–1925
  • Wilhelmina Cooper · Model, modeling agent, 1939–1980
  • Wilhelmina Lagerholm · Swedish photographer and painter, 1826–1917

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.