Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 111 births. Its best rank was 215th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1916320 births
- Best rank
- #215in 1884
- Since 1880
- 12,952people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,952 girls have been named Wilhelmina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 320 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Wilhelmina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 680 | |
| 1890s | 1,018 | |
| 1900s | 1,137 | |
| 1910s | 2,241 | |
| 1920s | 2,038 | |
| 1930s | 1,246 | |
| 1940s | 954 | |
| 1950s | 904 | |
| 1960s | 475 | |
| 1970s | 216 | |
| 1980s | 132 | |
| 1990s | 131 | |
| 2000s | 195 | |
| 2010s | 964 | |
| 2020s | 621 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Wilhelmina was the 345th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Wilhelmina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lenapeak 1917
- Lilliepeak 1919
- Olliepeak 1919
- Orapeak 1919
- Clarapeak 1918
- Lenniepeak 1915
- Ethapeak 1920
- Florapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.