Willemina
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Willemina is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 498◐
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
- SESweden1 in 309K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈35K ●
- Sources
- 29 ●
- 1 in 498 ◐
across 7 countries
93 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 34,690△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 498 | 35K | — | 5 |
| US United States | 151△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Willemina | 2 |
| FR France | 106 | 65 rec. | — | — | Willemina | 29 |
| SE Sweden | 33 | — | 1 in 309K | 33 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 9 | — | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Willemina | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | — | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 28 | — | — |
| NA Namibia | — | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 1 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 35K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 498). 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●
- Western Frisian51K40%
- Dutch38K30%
- English36K29%
- French1321%
- German1301%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 50,732 | 40% |
| Dutch | 37,916 | 30% |
| English | 36,178 | 29% |
| French | 132 | 1% |
| German | 130 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 1920–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Wil van Goghb. 1862NLnot in their usual nameDutch feminist and the sister of Vincent and Theo van Gogh (1862–1941)
- Willemina Ogteropb. 1881USArtist, philosopher, activist, internationalist.
- Willemina de Bruijnb. 1905NLDutch university teacher
- Willemina Kroosb. 1914NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Willemina Kloosterboerb. 1916NLthe author of Involuntary Labour Since the Abolition of Slavery and Invo
- Willemina Zijlstrab. 1920NLDutch musician, conductor and author, 1920-2011
- Tonke Dragtb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch children's writer and illustrator (1930–2024)
- Willemijn Fockb. 1942NLnot in their usual nameDutch university teacher
- Ella Koopmanb. 1947NLnot in their usual nameDutch sculptor (born 1947)
- Jannemieke Ouwerkerkb. 1981NLnot in their usual nameuniversity teacher at Leiden University
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Willemina?
- We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Willemina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Willemina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 35 thousand people bear Willemina in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Willemina most common?
- Willemina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 498 people carrying it.
- Is Willemina a male or female name?
- Willemina 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/willeminaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Willemina”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.