Entry № 11535 · Scottish origin

Williamina Williamina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wil-yah-MEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Resolute protector (Harvard astronomer who discovered Horsehead Nebula)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Scottish)

A name that means "resolute protector (harvard astronomer who discovered horsehead nebula)".

Williamina is the feminine of William. Williamina Fleming (1857-1911) was the Scottish-American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory who began work as Edward Pickering's housekeeper and ended up director of the team of women known as the "Harvard Computers." She personally classified over 10,000 stars and discovered the Horsehead Nebula (1888).

Featured in Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe (2016).

Resolute protector (Harvard astronomer who discovered Horsehead Nebula) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Williamina
Transliteration
Williamina
Pronunciation
/ ˌwɪl.jəˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Williamina stands.

Williamina 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.

Williaminas before her.

Real people
Williamina Fleming
Harvard astronomer.
1857 – 1911
In fiction
Williamina
The Glass Universe.
2016

Names connected to Williamina.

The number behind Williamina.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Williamina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.