Vilma

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Vilma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Honduras it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Véase Wilma.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 537◐
  • PEPeru1 in 966
  • HNHonduras1 in 987

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

≈182K ●

across 13 countries

#896 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
284 ●

698K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 652 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

VilmaLatin · Portuguese●2.2M records
ᲕილმაGeorgian · Georgian●30 records
ΒίλμαGreek · Greek●3 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Véase Wilma.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Vilma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#125233,462190K rec.——Vilma73
AR Argentina#413213,140139K rec.——Vilma76
BR Brazil#229124,601△49K rec.1 in 1.7K146KVilma142
PH Philippines#20198,60990K rec.——Vilma80
SV El Salvador#6950,50246K rec.——Vilma45
VE Venezuela#57942,92918K rec.——Vilma43
CL Chile#43619,7941.5K rec.——Vilma56
US United States—19,56467K rec.1 in 17K20KVilma284
HN Honduras#4718,54418K rec.——Vilma38
EC Ecuador#50412,472△365 rec.1 in 1.4K12KVilma35
FI Finland—8,550△113 rec.1 in 65211KVilma18
SE Sweden—5,854△125 rec.1 in 1.7K5.9KVilma25

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese2.2M64%
  • Spanish744K22%
  • English267K8%
  • Finnish44K1%
  • 13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese2,203,59764%
Spanish744,24322%
English266,5348%
Finnish43,7201%
13,2221%

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◐

Vilma is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name297K records spelled Vilma13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Languages: English, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Vïľmä, Vilmá

  • Croatian given name26K records spelled Vilma28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Croatia, Philippines, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Czech, Russian

    Also written Вильма, Вільма, Вілма, Вилма, Vil'Ma

  • Thai given name2.8K records spelled Vilma10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Thailand, Laos, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Wilma, วลมา, วัลมา, วิลม่า, วลิมา

  • Albanian given name2.6K records spelled Vilma2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Vílma

58 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●

Vilma 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 French, Féminin/variante de Guillaume; du germ. will + helm, « volonté/protection ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, weibl. Vom., nordische, italienische, ungarische ['vilmo] und englische ['vilma]

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Elmo della volontà

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Lithuanian, a female given name, a fairly popular name in Lithuania

    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●

010020030019502000213 · 1927

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Vilma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1901–2025
Yearrecords
19015
19025
19047
19055
190610
190710
19089
190913
191010
191123
191232
191330
191439
191543
191645
191752
191846
191940
192035
192147
192237
192341
192433
192554
1926117
1927213
1928177
1929198
1930147
1931120
193284
193367
193463
193550
193652
193732
193837
193935
194026
194125
194225
194330
194420
194518
194626
194730
194823
194928
195033
195134
195234
195329
195429
195531
195638
195749
195860
1959118
196094
196178
196292
196373
196481
196554
196657
196737
196845
196955
197038
197138
197243
197326
197436
197543
197625
197722
197823
197927
198027
198128
198227
198338
198424
198529
198636
198744
198842
198950
199048
199154
199239
199339
199436
199534
199633
199724
199826
199926
200031
200115
200227
200322
200420
200525
200633
200724
200829
200928
201014
201113
201217
201312
201416
201518
201622
201713
201815
201918
202020
202118
202221
202323
202421
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 124 years between 1901–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, b. 1788Vilma Hugonnai, b. 1847Vilma Bánky, b. 1901Vilma Degischer, b. 1911Vilma Ebsen, b. 1911Vilma Espin Guillois, b. 1930Wilma Rudolph, b. 1940Vilma Tsakiri, b. 1949Vilma Santos, b. 1953Vilma Cibulková, b. 1963

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 92 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Vilma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—146K#333
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022125K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—124K#262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202020K#1,621
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202412K#170
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—11K#409
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—8.6K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.9K#560
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.2K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4.2K#700
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—4.1K#187
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.8K#265

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 982 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vilma?
We estimate roughly 182 thousand people bear Vilma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Vilma have the most bearers?
Vilma is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled vilma.
How common is Vilma compared with other names?
In Peru, Vilma is the 125th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
Is Vilma a male or female name?
Vilma 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 Vilma mean?
Recorded meaning: Véase Wilma.
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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, “Vilma” — the 125th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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