Wilhelmine
Wilhelmine is a girl's name that peaked in 1896, when it was the 707th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 11 Wilhelmines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 2.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wilhelmine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 525
- Estimated living today
- 11
- Median age today
- 2
- Peak year
- 1896
- Best rank
- 707th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Wilhelmines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 525 babies given the name since 1880, about 11 are alive — 2 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2023 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Wilhelmines
- Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673–1742)Holy Roman Empress consort
- Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774–1837)queen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837
- Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902)Baltic German painter
- Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709–1758)Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel (1722–1787)German princess
- Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860)German opera soprano
- Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan (1781–1839)Duchess of Sagan
- Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau (1753–1820)Mistress of King Frederick William II of Prussia
People named Wilhelmine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wilhelmine is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1896
The most popular girls’ names the year Wilhelmine peaked:
Wilhelmine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Wilhelmine | 510 | 333rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Wilhelmine by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 17 | 351st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Wilhelmine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Wilhelmine | 709 | 2,960 |
| the Netherlands boys | Wilhelmine | — | 40 |
| Finland girls | Wilhelmine | 5 | 32 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,960 who carry it, 709 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Wilhelmine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.