Wilma
Wilma is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 62nd, in 1925.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19254,175 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1925
- Since 1880
- 140,056people given the name
The story in the numbers
140,056 girls have been named Wilma in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 4,175 births — 0.34% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 36 births in 2024, against 4,175 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Wilma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 212 | |
| 1890s | 1,109 | |
| 1900s | 4,012 | |
| 1910s | 21,384 | |
| 1920s | 39,127 | |
| 1930s | 33,187 | |
| 1940s | 21,192 | |
| 1950s | 12,278 | |
| 1960s | 4,525 | |
| 1970s | 1,239 | |
| 1980s | 609 | |
| 1990s | 418 | |
| 2000s | 283 | |
| 2010s | 300 | |
| 2020s | 181 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Wilma was the 62nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Wilma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melbapeak 1924
- Verlapeak 1922
- Maudinepeak 1925
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Ardispeak 1928
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Veltapeak 1927
- Loispeak 1927
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.