Entry № 11531 · Germanic origin

Wilhelmine Wilhelmine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vil-hel-MEEN-uh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Resolute protector (Wilhelmine of Bayreuth)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "resolute protector (wilhelmine of bayreuth)".

Wilhelmine is the German form of Wilhelmina — from the Germanic wil (will) + helm (helmet, protection). Princess Wilhelmine — multiple historic German naming.

Resolute protector (Wilhelmine of Bayreuth) — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Wilhelmine
Transliteration
Wilhelmine
Pronunciation
/ vɪl.hɛlˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wilhelmine stands.

Wilhelmine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wilhelmines before her.

Real people
Wilhelmine of Bayreuth
Prussian princess + UNESCO patron.
1709 – 1758
Wilhelmine Mitterer
Austrian published female composer.
1765 – 1817
In fiction
Wilhelmine
Germanic resolute protector.

Names connected to Wilhelmine.

The number behind Wilhelmine.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wilhelmine reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.