Hilma
Hilma is a female given name that was in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century. The name was made popular by the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The name was used in early 19th century Scandinavian literature, probably as a variant of Wilhelmina. It can also be a variant of the male name Hilmar or Hilmer.
- Finnish
- Swedish
Meaning & Origin of Hilma
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Hilma is a female given name that was in occasional use at the turn of the 20th century. The name was made popular by the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The name was used in early 19th century Scandinavian literature, probably as a variant of Wilhelmina. It can also be a variant of the male name Hilmar or Hilmer.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Finnish
- Swedish
The Story of Hilma
American parents first put Hilma on the record books as a baby girl name in 1880, with 10 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1915, when 105 Hilmas were born — ranking #644 that year. About 25% of every Hilma on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Hilma last appeared in the published SSA data in 1971, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 3K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Hilma
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- Hilma Angered Strandberg (1855–1927), Swedish writer
- Hilma Caldeira (born 1972), Brazilian volleyball player
- Hilma Contreras (1913–2006), Dominican writer
- Hilma Granqvist (1890–1972), Finnish anthropologist
- Hilma Iita , Namibian politician
- Hilma Gabriella Jahnsson (1882–1975), Finnish lawyer
- Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Swedish artist and mystic
- Hilma Räsänen (1877–1955), Finnish educator and politician
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Names that sound like Hilma
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About the name Hilma
Hilma is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1880 and has accumulated 3K births in the dataset. Hilma's peak popularity came in 1915 when it ranked #644. Use the chart and map above to compare Hilma's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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