Willma · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Willma.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1898

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 56 recorded years as a table

Willma, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1898	19
1902	27
1906	20
1908	21
1910	13
1911	12
1912	22
1913	13
1914	12
1915	17
1916	16
1917	17
1918	23
1919	19
1920	13
1921	12
1922	14
1923	13
1924	20
1925	7
1926	10
1927	17
1928	11
1929	8
1930	15
1931	21
1932	12
1933	24
1934	17
1935	10
1936	11
1937	19
1938	12
1939	15
1940	11
1941	7
1942	9
1943	9
1944	5
1945	5
1946	6
1947	6
1948	5
1949	9
1950	7
1951	7
1952	4
1953	4
1954	5
1955	3
1956	2
1958	3
1959	2
1961	2
1962	4
1965	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Willma isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Willma

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1965: 6
Rank in 1965: #5,817
How rare: 1 in 294,194 girls
Since 1898: 673

Willma was last recorded in 1965. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1902, at 27 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Willma doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.