Wilhemina

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births

Peak · girls
1886 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
956
since 1886

Wilhemina over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wilhemina has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #993, 1886girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#14,9425
2024#15,2935
2023#12,1977
2022—
2021—
2020#12,1427
2019#9,11211
2018—
2017—
2016#12,8767
2015—
2014#10,12910
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1985#10,6775
1984—
1983#9,0156
1982—
1981#6,8049
1980#9,0956
1979#10,2105
1978#7,6497
1977—
1976#9,2845
1975#7,9846
1974#7,6806
1973—
1972#7,2926
1971#5,5439
1970#7,9955
1969—
1968#3,78913
1967#4,6259
1966#5,2737
1965#4,20210
1964#3,87912
1963#3,06617
1962#2,81419
1961#1,95535
1960#1,92535
1959#2,02131
1958#2,37623
1957#2,27624
1956#2,32123
1955#2,02428
1954#2,69517
1953#2,30121
1952#2,26621
1951#2,47417
1950#2,12121
1949#3,17611
1948#4,6516
1947#4,7646
1946#3,21710
1945#3,1329
1944#3,3788
1943#2,86111
1942#3,4448
1941#3,9546
1940#2,73710
1939#4,2505
1938#2,73010
1937—
1936#2,52111
1935—
1934#2,9239
1933#2,8689
1932#3,2748
1931#3,8486
1930#2,69011
1929#2,43713
1928#2,09417
1927#2,69912
1926#2,56913
1925#2,37815
1924#2,30816
1923#2,58713
1922#2,18617
1921#2,04819
1920#2,26316
1919#2,38414
1918#2,10217
1917#2,69311
1916#2,83310
1915#2,9009
1914#1,66516
1913#1,88311
1912#2,3607
1911#1,7928
1910#1,9357
1909#1,6078
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1907#1,8216
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1904#1,6596
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1898#1,7005
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1886#9936
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five girls were named Wilhemina! It came in at #993, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1887–1903, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Wilhemina is popular in 1936

No state had 5 or more girls named Wilhemina in 1936, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wilhemina
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 351 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #14,942)
  • 2,800 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1886 at #993 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 24,089
  • Highest: 1 in 24,089 girls born in 1886 were named Wilhemina (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 23.6% of all girls named Wilhemina (226) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#993 (1886)#993
1890s5#1,700 (1898)#1,700
1900s20#1,607 (1909)#1,696
1910s110#1,665 (1914)#2,255
1920s151#2,048 (1921)#2,357
1930s69#2,521 (1936)#3,138
1940s85#2,737 (1940)#3,531
1950s226#2,021 (1959)#2,288
1960s157#1,925 (1960)#3,503
1970s49#5,543 (1971)#7,955
1980s26#6,804 (1981)#8,898
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s28#9,112 (2019)#10,706
2020s24#12,142 (2020)#13,644

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wilhemina in 1936

girls
#2,521
11 births · 1 in 94,581 girls

Top girls' names in 1936

  1. #1Mary54,377
  2. #2Shirley35,161
  3. #3Barbara31,682
  4. #4Betty25,868
  5. #5Patricia23,916
  6. #6Dorothy17,666
  7. #7Joan17,072
  8. #8Nancy16,755
  9. #9Margaret14,596
  10. #10Carol14,520
  11. #2,521Wilhemina11
More about 1936

girls

1,040,390 girls got a published name in 1936; 1 in 94,581 of them was named Wilhemina, which outranked 48.1% of the 4,856 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilhemina
  1. #2,386Vona12
  2. #2,386Wesley12
  3. #2,386Zelpha12
  4. #2,521Wilhemina11
  5. #2,521Alethea11
  6. #2,521Alla11
  7. #2,521Allen11
  8. #2,689Adah10
  9. #2,689Adline10
  10. #2,689Adria10

Tied with 167 names at #2,521; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,238Shelba#3,742 → #504
  2. ↑ 662Shelby#840 → #178
  3. ↑ 600Wendy#1,418 → #818
  4. ↑ 588Deanna#1,356 → #768
  5. ↑ 546Shari#1,514 → #968
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,028Norita#713 → #1,741
  2. ↓ 506Vernetta#974 → #1,480
  3. ↓ 461Ozella#984 → #1,445
  4. ↓ 400Shirleyann#896 → #1,296
  5. ↓ 342Idell#925 → #1,267

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1936 →