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Hildreth vs Hillary

American parents have registered 30,305 Hillarys since 1880, against 886 Hildreths. Hillary is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hildreth against Hillary, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hildreth Hillary

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 133 years in which either name was published, Hillary for 100 years and Hildreth for 33 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Hildreth Hillary
Total US births 88630,305
Most in one year 482,527
Babies in 2025 under 567
Estimated living today 8029,000
Median age today 8337
Peak year 19181992
Best rank 1,184th girls132nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,583rd
First recorded 18921888
Girls / boys 789 / 9729,043 / 1,262

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 Hildreths alive today are over 83; half the Hillarys are over 37. That is 46 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: Hildreth and Hillary.