Wilhelmine
Wilhelmine - also known in the form Wilhelmina - is a female given name that has been popular since the 17th century and developed from the male Wilhelm . It also occurs as a place name .
Origin and meaning
The original male name comes from the Altniederdeutschen and Old High German and combined willio ( 'will') with helmet (helmet '= protection). In the 17th and 18th centuries, the endings -ine / -ina were added as feminine designations. In the 19th century, the first name from queens to maids ("Minna") was widespread.
Name days
- May 26 (Finland, Sweden)
- 28th of May
- September 19th
- September 22 (Poland)
variants
- Guillermina (Spanish)
- Guglielma , Guglielmina (Italian)
- Helmet
- Minna , Minne
- Willemijn (Dutch)
- Wilma
Well-known namesake
- Wilhelmine Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1673–1742), by marriage to the Roman-German Empress
- Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650–1706), Danish princess from the House of Oldenburg and Electress of the Palatinate by marriage
- Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758) , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Wilhelmine of Prussia (1751–1820) , wife of the Dutch governor Wilhelm V (Orange)
- Wilhelmine of Prussia (1774–1837) , wife of King Wilhelm I (Netherlands)
- Wilhelmine von Baden (1788–1836), Grand Duchess of Hesse and near Rhine, wife of Grand Duke Ludwig II , through her son Alexander, ancestral mother of the Battenberg family
- Wilhelmine of Denmark (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 athlete
- Minna Bachem-Sieger (1870–1939), German women's rights activist and politician
- Minna Cauer (1841–1922), German women's rights activist
- Wilhelmine Halberstadt (1776–1841), German educator and writer
- Minna Herzlieb (1789–1865), lover of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916), German actress and writer
- Wilhelmine von Lichtenau (1752–1820), mistress Friedrich Wilhelm II.
- Wilhelmine Lübke (1885–1981), wife of the German Federal President Heinrich Lübke
- Wilhelmine Reichard (1788–1848), first German balloonist
- Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860), German singer
- Wilhelmine Siefkes (1890–1984), Low German writer
- Minna Wagner (1809–1866), German actress, first wife of Richard Wagner
- Wilhelmine Wittka (1893–1975), German-Lower Sorbian poet
Mines
- Wilhelmine mine , former mine in Sommerkahl (Bavaria)
- Wilhelmine mine (Freusburg) , former mine in Freusburg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Wilhelmine colliery
Others
- German name of the Polish place Wilkowice (until 1945: Wilhelmine, district of Schlawe / Pomerania )
- Wilhelmine (story) , story by Moritz August von Thümmel
- Wilhelmine , Berlin singer
- Minna von Barnhelm , title character in a comedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Wilhelmina Harker, character from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula
- Domus Wilhelmina , Old University (Heidelberg)
- Wilhelmina Bay , bay on the Danco Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica