Wilhelmine

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462

Peak · girls
1884 · 13 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
525
since 1880

Wilhelmine over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wilhelmine has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #583, 1884girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1937#4,2555
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1934#3,4497
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1931#4,3315
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1928#3,4368
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1925#4,0287
1924#3,3939
1923#3,9717
1922#2,61213
1921#3,16410
1920#2,89911
1919#2,38414
1918#2,28915
1917#2,69311
1916#1,73920
1915#1,73819
1914#1,54118
1913#1,76612
1912#1,84410
1911#1,24114
1910#1,52110
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1907#1,6397
1906#1,3219
1905#1,09312
1904#1,3648
1903#1,5926
1902#1,02412
1901#1,3397
1900#1,17111
1899#98311
1898#1,2638
1897#1,1678
1896#70720
1895#72519
1894#68219
1893#79414
1892#86112
1891#72714
1890#87210
1889#9508
1888#75312
1887#66112
1886#8977
1885#7938
1884#58313
1883#9205
1882#6788
1881#6238
1880#7386
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Wilhelmine was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1908–1909, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Wilhelmine is popular in 1890

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Wilhelmine
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
  • Biggest jump: 337 spots in 1884 (#920 → #583)
  • Biggest drop: 460 spots in 1897 (#707 → #1,167)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1884 at #583 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1903, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1880–1896
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,925
  • Highest: 1 in 9,925 girls born in 1884 were named Wilhelmine (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,430 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 27.2% of all girls named Wilhelmine (143) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s87#583 (1884)#760
1890s135#682 (1894)#878
1900s72#1,024 (1902)#1,318
1910s143#1,241 (1911)#1,876
1920s65#2,612 (1922)#3,358
1930s17#3,449 (1934)#4,012
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2020s6#13,462 (2023)#13,462

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wilhelmine in 1890

girls
#872
10 births · 1 in 19,038 girls

Top girls' names in 1890

  1. #1Mary12,078
  2. #2Anna5,233
  3. #3Elizabeth3,112
  4. #4Margaret3,100
  5. #5Emma2,980
  6. #6Florence2,744
  7. #7Ethel2,718
  8. #8Minnie2,650
  9. #9Clara2,496
  10. #10Bertha2,388
  11. #872Wilhelmine10
More about 1890

girls

190,377 girls got a published name in 1890; 1 in 19,038 of them was named Wilhelmine, which outranked 43.2% of the 1,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilhelmine
  1. #825Verena11
  2. #825Verona11
  3. #825Zelia11
  4. #872Wilhelmine10
  5. #872Alene10
  6. #872Amber10
  7. #872Arlie10
  8. #940Abigail9
  9. #940Aida9
  10. #940Albertha9

Tied with 67 names at #872; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. ↑ 612Electa#1,279 → #667
  2. ↑ 586Lular#1,279 → #693
  3. ↑ 548Alvena#1,147 → #599
  4. ↑ 521Prudie#1,279 → #758
  5. ↑ 505Tempie#1,147 → #642
Fallers
  1. ↓ 581Lella#757 → #1,338
  2. ↓ 581Vira#757 → #1,338
  3. ↓ 553Buena#657 → #1,210
  4. ↓ 536Roxana#802 → #1,338
  5. ↓ 499Fleda#839 → #1,338

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890 →