Wilhelmina (given name)

Wilhelmine - also known in the form of Wilhelmina - is used since the 17th century like a female first name, which has evolved from the male Wilhelm. It also occurs as a place name.

Origin and Meaning

The original male name originates from the Old High German and combined willio ( 'will' ) with helmet ( helmet '= protection). In the 17th and 18th centuries, the endings -ine/-ina have been added in the parlance as female names. In the 19th century the first name of queens was widespread down to the maid ( " Minna ").

Name Days

Variants

  • Guillermina (Spanish )
  • Helma
  • Minna, Minne
  • Willemijn (Dutch )
  • Wilma

Famous names winners

  • Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark and Norway (1650-1706), Danish princess of the House of Oldenburg and by marriage Electress of the Palatinate
  • Wilhelmina of Prussia (1709-1758), Margravine of Brandenburg -Bayreuth
  • Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820), wife of the Dutch Stadtholder William V. ( Orange )
  • Wilhelmina of Prussia (1774-1837), wife of King William I (Netherlands)
  • Wilhelmine of Denmark and Norway (1808-1891), Danish Crown Princess and Duchess of Glücksburg
  • Wilhelmina of Orange- Nassau (1880-1962), first Queen of the Netherlands
  • Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909-1976), German -American track and field athlete
  • Minna Cauer (1841-1922), German women's rights activist
  • Wilhelmine Halberstadt (1776-1841), German writer and teacher
  • Minna Herzlieb (1789-1865), beloved Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wilhelmine of Hillern (1836-1916), German actress and writer
  • Wilhelmine of Lichtenau (1753-1820), mistress of Frederick William II
  • Wilhelmine Lübke (1885-1981), wife of the German President Heinrich Lübke
  • Wilhelmine Reichard (1788-1848), first German balloonist
  • Helma Sanders- Brahms ( born 1940 ), German film director
  • Wilhelmine Schröder- Devrient (1804-1860), German singer
  • Wilhelmine Siefkes (1890-1984), German writer down
  • Minna Wagner (1809-1866), German actress, first wife of Richard Wagner
  • Wilhelmine Wittka (1893-1975), German - Lower Sorbian poet

Mines

  • Wilhelmine mine, a former mine in Sommerkahl ( Bavaria )
  • Pit Wilhelmine ( Freusburg ), a former mine in Freusburg ( Rhineland -Palatinate )
  • Mine Wilhelmine

Others

  • German name of the Polish town Wilkowice (until 1945: Wilhelmina, Schlawe / Pomerania )
  • Minna von Barn-helm, the title character of a comedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Wilhelmina Harker, from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula figure
  • Female first name
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