Entry № 4276 · German origin

Hilma Hilma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Protective"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "protective".

Hilma is a name of German origin, meaning protective.

Protective — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Hilma
Transliteration
Hilma
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Hilma stands.

Hilma 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.

Hilmas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hilma.

The number behind Hilma.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hilma reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.