Hilario vs Hillard
American parents have registered 4,681 Hilarios since 1880, against 2,356 Hillards. Hilario is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Hilario Hillard
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Hilario for 88 years and Hillard for 49 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Hilario | Hillard | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,681 | 2,356 |
| Most in one year | 71 | 82 |
| Babies in 2025 | 30 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 3,300 | 560 |
| Median age today | 36 | 70 |
| Peak year | 1996 | 1926 |
| Best rank | 1,445th boys | 699th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,658th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1885 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 4,681 | 0 / 2,356 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Hillards alive today are over 70; half the Hilarios are over 36. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Hilario Texas (8.6×), New Mexico (4.5×), California (2.9×)
- Hillard Kentucky (12.8×), Alabama (7.9×), Tennessee (5.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hilario and Hillard.