Meaning not yet researched.
Hilary: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #232 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #232 in 1990; #5,301 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hilary in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,301 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #232.
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Hilary: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #232 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 1,217 (1990).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Hilary, making it the 5,301st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,306 places from #3,995 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 37 girls named Hilary in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #232, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,217. For comparison, it was #3,041 in 2015 and #844 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hilary in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 26,368 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 8,448 babies named Hilary.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US girls were named Hilary; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hillary (30,305 babies since 1880) and Hilario (4,681 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hilarie, Ilario and Hilaree are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hilarie (771), Ilario (191), Hilaree (44).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hilary in the open dataset we use.
Hilary is listed as a nickname for Hillary.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,035 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,547 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,480 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,409 | 5 | #12,879 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,217 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2007 | 164 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2006 | 218 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1995 | 125 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1994 | 145 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1993 | 344 | #647 | 6 | #8,019 |
| 1992 | 1,170 | #234 | 6 | #7,822 |
| 1991 | 1,149 | #242 | 5 | #8,703 |
| 1990 | 1,217 | #232 | 8 | #6,048 |
| 1989 | 1,026 | #261 | 15 | #3,695 |
| 1988 | 976 | #262 | 5 | #7,726 |
| 1987 | 873 | #281 | 8 | #5,146 |
| 1986 | 909 | #274 | 12 | #3,726 |
| 1985 | 1,054 | #244 | 13 | #3,486 |
| 1984 | 877 | #274 | 10 | #4,034 |
| 1983 | 655 | #346 | 14 | #3,137 |
| 1982 | 601 | #384 | 6 | #5,927 |
| 1981 | 625 | #372 | 12 | #3,491 |
| 1980 | 741 | #326 | 16 | #2,877 |
| 1979 | 882 | #275 | 10 | #3,916 |
| 1978 | 763 | #305 | 11 | #3,488 |
| 1977 | 580 | #369 | 14 | #2,967 |
| 1976 | 437 | #444 | 11 | #3,358 |
| 1975 | 452 | #439 | 9 | #3,765 |
| 1974 | 426 | #445 | 13 | #2,865 |
| 1973 | 375 | #478 | 10 | #3,306 |
| 1972 | 333 | #516 | 17 | #2,276 |
| 1971 | 348 | #525 | 12 | #2,880 |
| 1970 | 355 | #532 | 25 | #1,762 |
| 1969 | 347 | #527 | 12 | #2,608 |
| 1968 | 253 | #605 | 11 | #2,644 |
| 1967 | 234 | #623 | 15 | #2,076 |
| 1966 | 253 | #594 | 16 | #1,997 |
| 1965 | 247 | #621 | 13 | #2,311 |
| 1964 | 257 | #638 | 17 | #2,011 |
| 1963 | 250 | #640 | 24 | #1,640 |
| 1962 | 200 | #731 | 15 | #2,144 |
| 1961 | 206 | #725 | 24 | #1,665 |
| 1960 | 164 | #811 | 19 | #1,878 |
| 1959 | 146 | #844 | 32 | #1,392 |
| 1958 | 128 | #908 | 35 | #1,312 |
| 1957 | 173 | #758 | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1956 | 162 | #770 | 37 | #1,270 |
| 1955 | 138 | #821 | 35 | #1,281 |
| 1954 | 116 | #892 | 35 | #1,284 |
| 1953 | 114 | #883 | 39 | #1,201 |
| 1952 | 100 | #926 | 27 | #1,474 |
| 1951 | 103 | #895 | 28 | #1,419 |
| 1950 | 109 | #844 | 26 | #1,449 |
| 1949 | 86 | #966 | 34 | #1,237 |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,148 | 41 | #1,116 |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,146 | 42 | #1,130 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,428 | 20 | #1,617 |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,179 | 28 | #1,256 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,414 | 28 | #1,270 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,638 | 35 | #1,161 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,356 | 25 | #1,398 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,626 | 26 | #1,315 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,478 | 29 | #1,262 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,257 | 29 | #1,228 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,292 | 20 | #1,542 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,496 | 28 | #1,277 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,959 | 28 | #1,258 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,633 | 39 | #1,030 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,159 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,933 | 38 | #1,061 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,152 | 30 | #1,244 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,080 | 45 | #988 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,479 | 36 | #1,182 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,886 | 48 | #977 |
| 1928 | — | — | 42 | #1,087 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,694 | 40 | #1,135 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,710 | 45 | #1,043 |
| 1925 | — | — | 32 | #1,289 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,416 | 53 | #971 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,642 | 51 | #967 |
| 1922 | — | — | 38 | #1,170 |
| 1921 | — | — | 37 | #1,186 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,623 | 42 | #1,097 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,314 | 35 | #1,199 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,532 | 47 | #978 |
| 1917 | — | — | 44 | #989 |
| 1916 | — | — | 40 | #1,018 |
| 1915 | — | — | 36 | #1,076 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,872 | 24 | #1,205 |
| 1913 | — | — | 23 | #1,061 |
| 1912 | — | — | 22 | #978 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,008 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,253 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,208 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,492 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,433 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,160 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,290 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #888 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,209 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,138 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,041 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #733 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #787 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #837 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #795 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).