Meaning not yet researched.
Hilton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #498 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #498 in 1905; #6,591 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Hilton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,591 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #498.
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Hilton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #498 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 138 (1920).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Hilton, making it the 6,591st most common boys’ name of the year, down 583 places from #6,008 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 boys named Hilton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #498, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 138, in 1920. For comparison, it was #5,600 in 2015 and #702 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Hilton, making it the 15,778th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,952 places from #9,826 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 10 girls named Hilton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,573, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hilton in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 6,990 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,214 babies named Hilton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 216 US boys were named Hilton; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Hylton are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hylton (5).
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 Hilton in the open dataset we use.
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 | 5 | #15,778 | 13 | #6,591 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,826 | 15 | #6,008 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,947 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,698 | 18 | #5,286 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,593 | 26 | #4,055 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,094 | 29 | #3,679 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,595 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,137 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,241 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,600 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,317 | 21 | #4,600 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,692 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,591 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,062 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,009 | 29 | #3,660 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,340 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,182 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,471 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,254 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,482 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,911 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,887 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,841 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,710 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,696 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,423 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,815 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,784 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,081 |
| 1995 | — | — | 25 | #2,875 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,657 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,083 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,231 |
| 1991 | — | — | 29 | #2,430 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,335 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,823 |
| 1988 | — | — | 34 | #1,926 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,295 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,120 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,845 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,318 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,796 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,910 |
| 1981 | — | — | 29 | #1,917 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,637 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,544 |
| 1978 | — | — | 24 | #2,031 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,460 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,080 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,571 |
| 1974 | — | — | 30 | #1,630 |
| 1973 | — | — | 30 | #1,598 |
| 1972 | — | — | 47 | #1,202 |
| 1971 | — | — | 32 | #1,542 |
| 1970 | — | — | 54 | #1,123 |
| 1969 | — | — | 58 | #1,015 |
| 1968 | — | — | 47 | #1,091 |
| 1967 | — | — | 38 | #1,223 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,037 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,117 |
| 1964 | — | — | 62 | #971 |
| 1963 | — | — | 74 | #873 |
| 1962 | — | — | 66 | #933 |
| 1961 | — | — | 64 | #961 |
| 1960 | — | — | 88 | #816 |
| 1959 | — | — | 80 | #849 |
| 1958 | — | — | 82 | #829 |
| 1957 | — | — | 92 | #784 |
| 1956 | — | — | 102 | #729 |
| 1955 | — | — | 80 | #822 |
| 1954 | — | — | 90 | #751 |
| 1953 | — | — | 73 | #844 |
| 1952 | — | — | 112 | #655 |
| 1951 | — | — | 83 | #770 |
| 1950 | — | — | 96 | #702 |
| 1949 | — | — | 75 | #795 |
| 1948 | — | — | 100 | #675 |
| 1947 | — | — | 87 | #740 |
| 1946 | — | — | 83 | #719 |
| 1945 | — | — | 85 | #654 |
| 1944 | — | — | 72 | #734 |
| 1943 | — | — | 99 | #642 |
| 1942 | — | — | 93 | #670 |
| 1941 | — | — | 95 | #620 |
| 1940 | — | — | 95 | #611 |
| 1939 | — | — | 97 | #583 |
| 1938 | — | — | 83 | #657 |
| 1937 | — | — | 87 | #624 |
| 1936 | — | — | 59 | #803 |
| 1935 | — | — | 102 | #573 |
| 1934 | — | — | 88 | #639 |
| 1933 | — | — | 99 | #584 |
| 1932 | — | — | 79 | #694 |
| 1931 | — | — | 117 | #541 |
| 1930 | — | — | 107 | #579 |
| 1929 | — | — | 110 | #566 |
| 1928 | — | — | 122 | #553 |
| 1927 | — | — | 111 | #590 |
| 1926 | — | — | 119 | #565 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,324 | 116 | #580 |
| 1924 | — | — | 135 | #546 |
| 1923 | — | — | 113 | #594 |
| 1922 | — | — | 134 | #542 |
| 1921 | — | — | 106 | #618 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,309 | 138 | #521 |
| 1919 | — | — | 97 | #616 |
| 1918 | — | — | 112 | #576 |
| 1917 | — | — | 111 | #558 |
| 1916 | — | — | 102 | #567 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,573 | 84 | #635 |
| 1914 | — | — | 64 | #637 |
| 1913 | — | — | 48 | #643 |
| 1912 | — | — | 39 | #684 |
| 1911 | — | — | 26 | #602 |
| 1910 | — | — | 21 | #644 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #782 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #912 |
| 1907 | — | — | 18 | #606 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #629 |
| 1905 | — | — | 21 | #498 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #843 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #754 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #711 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #807 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,101 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #821 |
| 1898 | — | — | 11 | #683 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #1,005 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #858 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #828 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,160 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,030 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,071 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #788 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,029 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #838 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,006 |
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).