Hilma

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hilma is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 1.3K◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 80K
  • USUnited States1 in 373K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈15K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
141 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hilma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—6,877△378 rec.1 in 1.5K6.9KHilma27
FI Finland#1984,335△71 rec.1 in 1.3K28KHilma20
BR Brazil—2,659△3 rec.1 in 80K3.1KHilma4
US United States—89213K rec.1 in 373K892Hilma141
NO Norway—64022 rec.—616Hilma8
DE Germany—516484 rec.—2Hilma40
GB United Kingdom—501496 rec.——Hilma26
AU Australia—236218 rec.—1Hilma38
CA Canada—216212 rec.——Hilma18
NL Netherlands—161177 rec.1 in 107K161Hilma18
IT Italy—132132 rec.——Hilma3
PH Philippines—126124 rec.——Hilma5

Roughly 6.9K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish88K53%
  • Portuguese44K27%
  • English16K10%
  • Spanish5.7K3%
  • Indonesian2.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish88,08353%
Portuguese43,76227%
English16,46510%
Spanish5,7253%
Indonesian2,8442%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hilma is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name51K records spelled Hilma4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hilmà

  • Indonesian given name3.7K records spelled Hilma4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Hilma, Hílmá

  • French given name958 records spelled Hilma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Mayotte, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hilmä

  • a separate given name498 records spelled Hilma2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Finland

    Also written Hîlmă

  • Russian given name60 records spelled Hilma5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Finland, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хильма

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hilma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, a female given name popular in the 19th century

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Hilma kan vara en femininform till Hilmar (→ Hilmer). Det kan även vara en smekform till → Vilhelmina. Ett tidigt litterärt exempel är idealgestalten Hilma i Johan Henrik Kellgrens Den nya skapelsen (1790) med flera dikter. Hilma har varit ett popu lärt namn det senaste årtiondet. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 21 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, um 1900 aufgekommener weibl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In got, romanization of 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015018801900192019401960105 · 1915

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Hilma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–1971
Yearrecords
188010
188117
188216
188327
188428
188534
188627
188726
188837
188929
189042
189134
189240
189341
189438
189544
189638
189747
189844
189947
190038
190151
190235
190334
190438
190532
190642
190748
190853
190935
191041
191146
191247
191345
191487
1915105
191699
191793
1918102
191978
1920101
192172
192275
192359
192475
192563
192646
192765
192835
192947
193042
193132
193240
193342
193422
193528
193617
193723
193825
193917
194021
194120
194218
194319
194412
194515
19467
194719
194812
19499
195017
195111
195213
195312
19546
195512
19568
19597
19608
19637
19715

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1880–1971. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Emma Chadwick, b. 1855Hilma Angered Strandberg, b. 1855Hilma Lindberg, b. 1856Hilma af Klint, b. 1862Hilma Borelius, b. 1869Hilma Gabriella Jahnsson, b. 1882Hilma Granqvist, b. 1890Hilma Contreras, b. 1913Hilma Wolitzer, b. 1930Hilma Caldeira, b. 1972

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 49 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Hilma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—28K#161
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.9K#510
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.1K#4,573
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—3.1K#2,071
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.7K#4,234
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20002.6K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020892#13,386
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—616#2,197
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024202—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 312 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hilma?
We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Hilma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Hilma have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Hilma in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hilma.
How common is Hilma compared with other names?
In Namibia, Hilma is the 4th most common given name of 245 given names recorded there.
Is Hilma a male or female name?
Hilma 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.
What does the name Hilma mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Hilma” — the 4th most common given name in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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