Wylma
About 542 American babies have been named Wylma since 1899, most of them around 1920. It has not appeared in the national data since 1953. About 60 Wylmas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 84.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wylma
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 542
- Estimated living today
- 60
- Median age today
- 84
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,375th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1899
How old the living Wylmas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 542 babies given the name since 1899, about 60 are alive — 11 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1941 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.
Where Wylma is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Wylma peaked:
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Wylma 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.