Name meaning & stats
Thelma
Thelma means “a 19th-century coinage”. 42,871 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“a 19th-century coinage”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
42,871 US babies were named Thelma between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Thelma (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)