Wilhemenia

Last seen for girls in 1974 at #8,775

Peak · girls
1937 · 10 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
264
since 1921

Wilhemenia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wilhemenia has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201953peak #2,735, 1937girls
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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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1974#8,7755
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1933#4,2185
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1929#4,0536
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First appearance
1921

The first year at least five girls were named Wilhemenia! It came in at #4,464, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1922, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Wilhemenia is popular in 1953

No state had 5 or more girls named Wilhemenia in 1953, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wilhemenia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1974
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1921
  • Peaked 1937 at #2,735 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1938, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 106,403
  • Highest: 1 in 106,403 girls born in 1937 were named Wilhemenia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 293,507 girls born in 1974 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 36.0% of all girls named Wilhemenia (95) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s32#3,350 (1923)#4,201
1930s45#2,735 (1937)#3,441
1940s54#3,132 (1945)#3,724
1950s95#2,812 (1953)#3,995
1960s33#4,184 (1960)#4,881
1970s5#8,775 (1974)#8,775

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.

Wilhemenia in 1953

girls
#2,812
15 births · 1 in 125,420 girls

Top girls' names in 1953

  1. #1Mary64,389
  2. #2Linda61,281
  3. #3Deborah52,199
  4. #4Patricia51,019
  5. #5Susan44,297
  6. #6Barbara38,473
  7. #7Debra36,856
  8. #8Nancy30,620
  9. #9Karen29,858
  10. #10Pamela25,760
  11. #2,812Wilhemenia15
More about 1953

girls

1,881,301 girls got a published name in 1953; 1 in 125,420 of them was named Wilhemenia, which outranked 56.7% of the 6,497 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilhemenia
  1. #2,699Zenaida16
  2. #2,699Zettie16
  3. #2,699Zondra16
  4. #2,812Wilhemenia15
  5. #2,812Adaline15
  6. #2,812Adel15
  7. #2,812Adelaida15
  8. #2,921Aldona14
  9. #2,921Allegra14
  10. #2,921Aloma14

Tied with 108 names at #2,812; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1952
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,253Enola#3,201 → #948
  2. ↑ 885Lu#1,368 → #483
  3. ↑ 749Joni#1,046 → #297
  4. ↑ 553Brooke#1,351 → #798
  5. ↑ 531Lorri#1,430 → #899
Fallers
  1. ↓ 274Roseanna#808 → #1,082
  2. ↓ 253Georgie#946 → #1,199
  3. ↓ 218Pandora#783 → #1,001
  4. ↓ 204Fonda#822 → #1,026
  5. ↓ 195Brinda#935 → #1,130

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

See the top 100 for 1953 →