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Gilma

About 228 American babies have been named Gilma since 1899, most of them around 1989. It has not appeared in the national data since 2002. About 110 Gilmas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Gilma

By the numbers

Total US births
228
Estimated living today
110
Median age today
41
Peak year
1989
Best rank
5,836th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1899

How old the living Gilmas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 228 babies given the name since 1899, about 110 are alive — 49 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 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 Gilma is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1989

The most popular girls’ names the year Gilma peaked:

All the names of 1989

Related names

Gilma 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.