Gilma
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gilma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Colombia. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 3.5K◐
- COColombia1 in 5.4K
- HNHonduras1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- Sources
- 146 ●
- 1 in 9.7K ◐
across 7 countries
53K records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #459 | 11,422 | 6.4K rec. | — | 10 | Gilma | 78 |
| SV El Salvador | #292 | 7,689 | 6.7K rec. | — | — | Gilma | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,199△ | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 29K | 7.8K | Gilma | 73 |
| PE Peru | — | 6,948 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Gilma | 31 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 5,201 | 2.1K rec. | — | 975 | Gilma | 22 |
| HN Honduras | #333 | 2,548 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Gilma | 19 |
| US United States | — | 2,476 | 18K rec. | 1 in 134K | 2.5K | Gilma | 146 |
| NI Nicaragua | #297 | 1,989 | 2K rec. | — | — | Gilma | 11 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,735△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 9.7K | 1.7K | Gilma | 23 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,220 | 1K rec. | — | 7 | Gilma | 44 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,056 | 915 rec. | — | 2 | Gilma | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | 556 | 987 rec. | — | — | Gilma | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese110K59%
- Spanish47K25%
- English21K11%
- 1.1K1%
- Hindi4901%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 110,258 | 59% |
| Spanish | 47,079 | 25% |
| English | 21,027 | 11% |
| 1,059 | 1% | |
| Hindi | 490 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1911 | 2 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1913 | 3 |
| 1914 | 3 |
| 1915 | 2 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1919 | 4 |
| 1920 | 3 |
| 1921 | 4 |
| 1922 | 4 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 3 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 8 |
| 1929 | 3 |
| 1930 | 14 |
| 1931 | 13 |
| 1932 | 7 |
| 1933 | 8 |
| 1934 | 16 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1937 | 9 |
| 1938 | 14 |
| 1939 | 12 |
| 1940 | 11 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1942 | 13 |
| 1943 | 12 |
| 1944 | 24 |
| 1945 | 22 |
| 1946 | 16 |
| 1947 | 22 |
| 1948 | 22 |
| 1949 | 21 |
| 1950 | 19 |
| 1951 | 22 |
| 1952 | 23 |
| 1953 | 26 |
| 1954 | 26 |
| 1955 | 29 |
| 1956 | 33 |
| 1957 | 28 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 25 |
| 1960 | 29 |
| 1961 | 29 |
| 1962 | 33 |
| 1963 | 29 |
| 1964 | 32 |
| 1965 | 30 |
| 1966 | 38 |
| 1967 | 32 |
| 1968 | 31 |
| 1969 | 38 |
| 1970 | 42 |
| 1971 | 42 |
| 1972 | 35 |
| 1973 | 33 |
| 1974 | 36 |
| 1975 | 34 |
| 1976 | 33 |
| 1977 | 30 |
| 1978 | 28 |
| 1979 | 31 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 23 |
| 1983 | 25 |
| 1984 | 34 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 19 |
| 1987 | 25 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 21 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 112 years between 1900–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gilma Jiménezb. 1956COColombian politician (1956–2013)
- Gilma Luqueb. 1977MXMexican writer
- Gilma Martirb. 2002SVSalvadoran association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.8K | #2,515 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 7.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 7.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.8K | #1,207 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.3K | #2,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,420 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2K | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 354 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gilma?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Gilma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gilma have the most bearers?
- Gilma is most frequently recorded in Colombia, where it is most often spelled gilma.
- How common is Gilma compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Gilma is the 459th most common given name of 99,385 given names recorded there.
- Is Gilma a male or female name?
- Gilma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gilma” — the 459th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.