Hillard
The boy's name Hillard has been in the national records since 1880, with 2,356 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2002. About 560 Hillards are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hillard
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,356
- Estimated living today
- 560
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1926
- Best rank
- 699th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Hillards are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,356 babies given the name since 1880, about 560 are alive — 24 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Hillard is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hillard is most concentrated in Kentucky (12.8×), Alabama (7.9×), Tennessee (5.8×), Illinois (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1926
The most popular boys’ names the year Hillard peaked:
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Hillard against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.