girls:
140k births since 1880
#284 (95th percentile)
boys:
754 births since 1908
#3833 (16th percentile)
overall:
140.8k births since 1880
#529 (93rd percentile)
The name Wilma is the #529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,767 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #284 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 140,013 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,833 (16.4% percentile) for all time with 754 births since 1908.
Wilma has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1908 for boys).
The name Wilma has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Wilma reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 90.0% percentile (ranked #62) with 3,305 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 3,493 births per million (ranked 88.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Wilma ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Wilma reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #507) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilma".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wilma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wilma is pronounced as WIHL-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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