girls:
743 births since 1900
#4973 (13th percentile)
boys:
15.8k births since 1880
#928 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.5k births since 1880
#2011 (74th percentile)
The name Wilmer is the #2,011 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,536 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #928 (79.8% percentile) for all time with 15,793 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,973 (13.0% percentile) for all time with 743 births since 1900.
Wilmer has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1900 for girls).
The name Wilmer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilmer reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 53.4% percentile (ranked #250) with 402 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 402 births per million (ranked 53.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wilmer ranks #802 for boys (12.0% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 15.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wilmer reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #565) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 29 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilmer".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wilmer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wilmer is pronounced as WIHL-mer, which has 2 syllables.
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