Meaning not yet researched.
Vilma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #478 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #478 in 1927; #7,861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vilma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,861 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #478.
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Vilma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #478 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 213 (1927).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Vilma, making it the 7,861st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,914 places from #5,947 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 21 girls named Vilma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #478, reached in 1927. That year also had the most girls given the name: 213. For comparison, it was #6,964 in 2015 and #1,652 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vilma in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 5 babies. In all, 4,989 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 952 babies named Vilma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US girls were named Vilma; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wilma (140,855 babies since 1880) and Velma (87,202 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Finnish and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Vilma in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,861 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,947 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,972 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,674 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,068 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,686 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,743 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,749 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,973 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,620 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,582 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,438 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,119 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,678 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,218 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,134 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,884 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,253 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,580 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,613 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,306 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,074 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,505 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1964 | 81 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1961 | 78 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1960 | 94 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1959 | 118 | #977 | — | — |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1936 | 52 | #960 | — | — |
| 1935 | 50 | #983 | — | — |
| 1934 | 63 | #864 | — | — |
| 1933 | 67 | #819 | — | — |
| 1932 | 84 | #739 | — | — |
| 1931 | 120 | #606 | — | — |
| 1930 | 147 | #563 | — | — |
| 1929 | 198 | #481 | — | — |
| 1928 | 177 | #523 | — | — |
| 1927 | 213 | #478 | — | — |
| 1926 | 117 | #672 | — | — |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1921 | 47 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1919 | 40 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1917 | 52 | #977 | — | — |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1914 | 39 | #954 | — | — |
| 1913 | 30 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1912 | 32 | #902 | — | — |
| 1911 | 23 | #931 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,931 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).