girls:
16 births since 1916
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
584 births since 1912
#4002 (13th percentile)
overall:
600 births since 1912
#7139 (8th percentile)
The name Wilmar is the #7,139 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 600 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,002 (12.7% percentile) for all time with 584 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1916.
Wilmar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1916 for girls). Birth data for Wilmar is available in 63 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wilmar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilmar reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #518) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 22 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wilmar ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 19.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wilmar reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #572) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilmar".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wilmar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Wilmar is pronounced as WIHL-mahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIHL-mer, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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