Hildagard vs Hilton
American parents have registered 6,990 Hiltons since 1880, against 120 Hildagards. Hilton is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Hildagard Hilton
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 138 years in which either name was published, Hilton for 137 years and Hildagard for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Hildagard | Hilton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 120 | 6,990 |
| Most in one year | 12 | 143 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 18 |
| Estimated living today | 2 | 3,100 |
| Median age today | 96 | 56 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 1920 |
| Best rank | 2,498th girls | 521st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 6,446th |
| First recorded | 1901 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 120 / 0 | 65 / 6,925 |
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 Hildagards alive today are over 96; half the Hiltons are over 56. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hildagard and Hilton.