Comments for the name Ilma

Also means "air" in Finnish.

Really great Finnish name in my opinion!

I believe that Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings) may well have derived his name for one of the three layers of Middle-Earth air, the Ilwe, from this name.

Now, noun names are not all that uncommon in Finland. Children have been named Pilvi 'cloud', Aamu 'morning', Ilta 'evening', and the likes, and these are perfectly acceptable names, but this one gets a tad too literal and concrete for many Finns' tastes somehow. I guess this name has been quite common, but I have yet to hear of even a very old woman who has died long ago named Ilma. The masculine name Ilmari used to be common, but it doesn't really mean anything, like this one does. Besides, the name sounds like some other hideous grandmother names like Elma and Alma.

Ilma is also a very much used word in Maltese meaning Water. The Arabic word for water is Mai or Ma and Il is the article as "the" used before the Arabic word, thus becoming Il-Ma and the Maltese adapted it as one word, Ilma.

This is one of my middle names. It was also my grandmother's name. I like it. I always thought it was a form of Wilhelmina, though.

I think this would be an especially good name for a baby born under the Air Sign.

Hey that's my real name! I have just learned that it means "air" in Finnish. I just know that it means "knowledge" in Arabic.

This doesn't sound like a name to me. But I do like the variant Ilmi, which is also more common.