Yolimar is of Spanish origin, derived from ' yolanda' and 'mar'. It means 'yolandita by the sea', combining the Spanish name Yolanda with 'mar', the Spanish word for sea. This name was popularized by a character in a Venezuelan telenovela in the late 1980s.
The name Yolimar experienced a gap of over two decades between its appearances on birth records, with only five babies given this name each year in 1990 and again in 2012.