Meaning not yet researched.
Wilma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #62 in 1925.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #62 in 1925; #3,705 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wilma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,705 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1925, at #62.
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Wilma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #62 in 1925 · most girls in one year: 4,175 (1925).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Wilma, making it the 3,705th most common girls’ name of the year, up 329 places from #4,034 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 37 girls named Wilma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #62, reached in 1925. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,175. For comparison, it was #4,483 in 2015 and #171 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilma in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 5 babies with the name. In all, 140,855 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 39,347 babies named Wilma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 359 US girls were named Wilma; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vilma (4,989 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Willma, Wylma and Welma are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Billiewilhelm and William.
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 Dutch, English, Finnish, German and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Willma (673), Wylma (542), Welma (189), Wilmah (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Wilma is listed as a nickname for Wilhelmina.
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 | 41 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,483 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,433 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,545 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,800 | — | — |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,109 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,701 | — | — |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,975 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,565 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1979 | 83 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1978 | 88 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1976 | 102 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1973 | 130 | #940 | — | — |
| 1972 | 142 | #892 | — | — |
| 1971 | 187 | #780 | — | — |
| 1970 | 202 | #735 | — | — |
| 1969 | 249 | #631 | — | — |
| 1968 | 224 | #649 | — | — |
| 1967 | 281 | #566 | — | — |
| 1966 | 339 | #515 | — | — |
| 1965 | 396 | #477 | — | — |
| 1964 | 458 | #457 | — | — |
| 1963 | 556 | #408 | — | — |
| 1962 | 582 | #397 | — | — |
| 1961 | 717 | #357 | 10 | #2,893 |
| 1960 | 724 | #362 | — | — |
| 1959 | 754 | #349 | 5 | #4,557 |
| 1958 | 890 | #300 | — | — |
| 1957 | 986 | #283 | 5 | #4,543 |
| 1956 | 1,086 | #253 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,100 | #248 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,303 | #223 | 6 | #3,816 |
| 1953 | 1,435 | #207 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 1952 | 1,423 | #202 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 1951 | 1,644 | #178 | 5 | #4,242 |
| 1950 | 1,655 | #171 | 7 | #3,320 |
| 1949 | 1,726 | #167 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,742 | #164 | 9 | #2,783 |
| 1947 | 1,910 | #152 | 7 | #3,368 |
| 1946 | 1,914 | #144 | 11 | #2,400 |
| 1945 | 1,890 | #128 | 10 | #2,391 |
| 1944 | 2,128 | #125 | 17 | #1,734 |
| 1943 | 2,377 | #120 | 12 | #2,275 |
| 1942 | 2,457 | #114 | 19 | #1,681 |
| 1941 | 2,427 | #106 | 22 | #1,481 |
| 1940 | 2,621 | #93 | 21 | #1,518 |
| 1939 | 2,701 | #87 | 26 | #1,322 |
| 1938 | 2,871 | #85 | 27 | #1,309 |
| 1937 | 2,977 | #80 | 25 | #1,371 |
| 1936 | 3,123 | #78 | 13 | #2,060 |
| 1935 | 3,361 | #70 | 22 | #1,492 |
| 1934 | 3,311 | #73 | 26 | #1,356 |
| 1933 | 3,417 | #66 | 21 | #1,539 |
| 1932 | 3,611 | #65 | 21 | #1,582 |
| 1931 | 3,741 | #69 | 26 | #1,392 |
| 1930 | 4,075 | #68 | 27 | #1,427 |
| 1929 | 4,007 | #66 | 29 | #1,337 |
| 1928 | 3,937 | #69 | 24 | #1,566 |
| 1927 | 4,153 | #68 | 24 | #1,601 |
| 1926 | 4,054 | #67 | 21 | #1,717 |
| 1925 | 4,175 | #62 | 27 | #1,449 |
| 1924 | 4,066 | #67 | 19 | #1,892 |
| 1923 | 3,706 | #74 | 25 | #1,548 |
| 1922 | 3,535 | #77 | 13 | #2,480 |
| 1921 | 3,824 | #72 | 21 | #1,764 |
| 1920 | 3,670 | #78 | 17 | #2,050 |
| 1919 | 3,170 | #86 | 15 | #2,149 |
| 1918 | 3,298 | #82 | 21 | #1,708 |
| 1917 | 3,071 | #82 | 18 | #1,811 |
| 1916 | 2,962 | #82 | 18 | #1,769 |
| 1915 | 2,773 | #80 | 7 | #3,386 |
| 1914 | 1,788 | #95 | 7 | #2,907 |
| 1913 | 1,469 | #92 | 15 | #1,439 |
| 1912 | 1,241 | #99 | 6 | #2,533 |
| 1911 | 914 | #102 | — | — |
| 1910 | 698 | #119 | — | — |
| 1909 | 645 | #113 | 5 | #1,676 |
| 1908 | 630 | #113 | 5 | #1,581 |
| 1907 | 525 | #125 | — | — |
| 1906 | 408 | #147 | — | — |
| 1905 | 357 | #158 | — | — |
| 1904 | 352 | #154 | — | — |
| 1903 | 293 | #168 | — | — |
| 1902 | 272 | #173 | — | — |
| 1901 | 245 | #178 | — | — |
| 1900 | 285 | #187 | — | — |
| 1899 | 235 | #181 | — | — |
| 1898 | 159 | #232 | — | — |
| 1897 | 131 | #248 | — | — |
| 1896 | 105 | #286 | — | — |
| 1895 | 99 | #281 | — | — |
| 1894 | 90 | #292 | — | — |
| 1893 | 81 | #305 | — | — |
| 1892 | 86 | #294 | — | — |
| 1891 | 59 | #331 | — | — |
| 1890 | 64 | #316 | — | — |
| 1889 | 40 | #387 | — | — |
| 1888 | 37 | #411 | — | — |
| 1887 | 22 | #488 | — | — |
| 1886 | 26 | #431 | — | — |
| 1885 | 23 | #445 | — | — |
| 1884 | 17 | #519 | — | — |
| 1883 | 18 | #464 | — | — |
| 1882 | 14 | #506 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #580 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #942 | — | — |
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).