Wilma is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Wilma is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Wilma. In the SmartGenius ranking, Wilma is #3,938 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 131,535 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Wilma. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Wilma is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Wilma for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Wilma is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Wilma is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 61 Wilma easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1925.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wilma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 42 babies were named Wilma in the USA in 2022, ranking it #3,229 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2014, when it was only ranked at #5,777 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 19 girls were named Wilma.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Wilma is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 0.8% of all girls' names start with a W, all other letters occur on average five times as often as the W. Nevertheless, individual girls' names with W are quite popular, the most common currently being Wanda.
If your name is Wilma and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Wilma, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Lion
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wilma
Wilma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
L
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
I
L
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Wilma sounds like this:
