Hilma
Hilma is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 344th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1915105 births
- Best rank
- #344in 1885
- Since 1880
- 2,999people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,999 girls have been named Hilma in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 105 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 105 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1916, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Hilma was the 646th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Hilma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Blanchepeak 1917
- Oniepeak 1918
- Orphapeak 1917
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Bessiepeak 1916
- Gertiepeak 1918
- Myrtlepeak 1918
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.