Wilma

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Wilma: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Wilma: Recorded since 1974, with a gap of 23 years, its highest recorded position is #109, and it stood at #117 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#109highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Wilma's record

Absent from every published list for 23 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3262
2009	#5556
2013	#5742
2014	#4684
2015	#5730
2017	#4063
2018	#3985
2019	#4001
2020	#3447
2021	#3192
2022	#2488
2023	#3218
2024	#2771
2025	#2278

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1998 to 2025.

In 2025: #117 among girls in Norway, #2278 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1974–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #523 among girls in Norway in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2025
Highest recorded position: #109 among girls in Norway, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2278 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Wilma appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 787 births with the name.

Wilma across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Wilma's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#523 (1998)	#109 (2024)	#117 (2025)	28 of 28	787 (1998–2025)	50 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#3262 (2001)	#2278 (2025)	#2278 (2025)	14 of 25	83 (2001–2025)	12 (2025)

Wilma by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Wilma in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	164	10 of 10	16
2010s	346	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	267	6 of 10	45

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 45 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Wilma appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #109 in Norway in 2024.

Wilma's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#2278	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#117	49	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#109	50	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#118	47	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#158	32	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#116	44	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#117	45	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#153	34	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#118	50	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#141	41	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#198	29	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#155	40	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#186	32	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#194	30	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#223	26	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#177	33	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#197	31	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#268	20	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#204	30	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#189	32	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#239	22	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#380	11	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#464	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#370	10	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#340	12	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#322	13	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#484	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#639	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#523	6	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Wilma is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Wilma, between 1974 and 2025, in 29 of those 52 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1974	1	#490 in 1974
Norway	1998–2025	28	#109 in 2024
England and Wales	2001–2025	14	#2278 in 2025

Its high point came 51 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1974) than in England and Wales (2025).

No registrar recorded it for 23 years after 1974; it appears again in 1998.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1974 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #109, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in Norway in 2018.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 23 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Willow-Rose · #703, 17y
Willy · #63, 67y
Wilmer · #174, 18y
Wilson · #280, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mirren · #106, 28y
Alesha · #104, 30y
Lilja · #104, 31y
Mckenzie · #114, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Muhammed · #108, 46y
Liva · #107, 36y
Lyndsey · #112, 36y
Karolina · #114, 52y

Wilma was ranked #109 in Norway · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leonora#105
Vera#106
Elena#107
Millie#108
Sunniva#110
Alba#111
Ingeborg#112
Kaia#113

Wilma and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Wilma without appearing here.

Wilma moved ahead of

Hayden
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Teddy
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Gemma
In 2024 they stood at #2771 and #1541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #2278 and #4867.
Tracy
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Wilma

Amalie
In 2008 they stood at #3262 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #806.
Mila
In 2018 they stood at #118 and #120 in Norway · Girls; by 2019 that had become #153 and #82.
Aria
In 2013 they stood at #194 and #257 in Norway · Girls; by 2014 that had become #186 and #143.
Ellie
In 2013 they stood at #194 and #202 in Norway · Girls; by 2014 that had become #186 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Wilma

Alexandra
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 while Alexandra went from #137 to #212.
Amalie
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 while Amalie went from #13 to #25.
Andrea
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 while Andrea went from #15 to #98.
Anita
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 while Anita went from #153 to #459.

Moved the same way as Wilma

Ada
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 and Ada from #183 to #18.
Alma
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 and Alma from #287 to #8.
Amelia
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 and Amelia from #485 to #39.
Annie
Between 1998 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Wilma went from #523 to #117 and Annie from #391 to #214.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #109 in Norway in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wilma

Wilma at a glance

What stands out in Wilma's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wilma across 2 official records

Wilma by decade in Norway · Girls

Wilma appears in

Popularity data

Where Wilma is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Wilma

Wilma and the names beside it

Wilma moved ahead of

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Wilma at a glance

What stands out in Wilma's record

Wilma across 2 official records

Wilma by decade in Norway · Girls

Wilma appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Wilma

Wilma and the names beside it

Wilma moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Wilma

Moved the opposite way to Wilma

Moved the same way as Wilma