Hilma

Where Hilma comes from

Used in early 19th-century Scandinavian literature, probably as a variant of Wilhelmina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hilma
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1862
    Hilma af Klint born
    Swedish artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #341
    34 babies named Hilma — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1890
    Hilma Granqvist born
    Finnish anthropologist
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,873.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.
Namesakes
  • Hilma af Klint · Swedish artist, 1862–1944
  • Hilma Granqvist · Finnish anthropologist, 1890–1972
  • Hilma Angered Strandberg · writer, 1855–1927
  • Hilma Caldeira · Brazilian volleyball player, born 1972
  • Hilma Nicanor · Namibian politician and woman activist, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.