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Hilah vs Hilario

American parents have registered 4,681 Hilarios since 1880, against 61 Hilahs. Hilario is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hilah against Hilario, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hilah Hilario

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 124 years in which either name was published, Hilario for 122 years and Hilah for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Hilah Hilario
Total US births 614,681
Most in one year 771
Babies in 2025 under 530
Estimated living today 133,300
Median age today 7036
Peak year 18861996
Best rank 897th girls1,445th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,658th
First recorded 18861885
Girls / boys 61 / 00 / 4,681

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 Hilahs 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hilah and Hilario.