Wilmar
Masculine · “Germanic wil and mar”
Wilmar is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 597 boys against 16 girls since 1880.
Wilmar is a Germanic name that has had two separate American lives. It peaked once around 1919, carried by German-speaking families, and returned much later through Colombia, where it is a common modern name with no German feeling to it at all.
How old is the name Wilmar?
Wilmar first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Wilmar alive today was born around 1934, making them about 91 years old. About 300 people named Wilmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Wilmar most popular?
Wilmar peaked in 1919, reaching #1576 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,138 places below that high. See the whole 1919 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Wilimar to Wilmar
The story of Wilmar
The old Germanic naming system worked by recombination. A family held a small stock of elements and gave each child a pair, often sharing one element with a parent or a grandparent, so that names ran in visible sets rather than repeating exactly. Wil- and -mar were both common counters, which is why Wilmar, Wilmer, Willem, Waldemar and Volkmar all sound like relatives, and often were. The name reached American records with German and Scandinavian immigration and peaked in the 1910s. Its second life is Colombian: Wilmar has been a standard boy's name there for decades, part of a large local stock of English- and German-looking names, and it re-entered American data with Colombian families. The same spelling, arriving twice by two different routes, a century apart.
Meaning
Germanic wil and mar, will and famous
Wilmar is from the Old Germanic elements wil, will or desire, and mari, famous, the same second element found in Waldemar, Dietmar and Volkmar. Germanic names were built by pairing two such elements, and the pairing did not have to make sense as a phrase; it identified a family, not a quality.
How the name formed
- Wilimar
- Wilmar
Related forms: Wilmar · Wilmar · Wilmer · Willem
Pronouncing Wilmar
WIL-mar
Two syllables, stress on the first. Spanish speakers say it the same way; the r is the only sound that shifts.
Nicknames for Wilmar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 191922 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1576reached in 1919
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Wilmar in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Wilmar in German — same name
- Wilmar in Spanish — same name
- Wilmer in German — spelling variant
- Willem in Dutch — related form
Wilmars among us
people named Wilmar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Wilmar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Wilmar sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Wilmar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Wilmar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Wil works as a short form in English, Spanish and German alike.
- Two syllables, six letters, spelled as it sounds.
- It is current in Colombia and readable in the United States without adjustment.
- Wilmer is the more common spelling in American records.
- The 1919 peak makes it read as old-fashioned to some Americans and entirely modern to others.
- It is easily confused with Wilmer and Wilbur.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Wilmars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Wilmar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Wilmar in 2025?
- Wilmar ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Wilmar?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Wilmar — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Wilmar with classmates?
- Wilmar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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