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Hillary vs Hilliard

American parents have registered 30,305 Hillarys since 1880, against 1,859 Hilliards. Hillary is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hillary Hilliard

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 142 years in which either name was published, Hillary for 86 years and Hilliard for 56 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Hillary Hilliard
Total US births 30,3051,859
Most in one year 2,52753
Babies in 2025 67under 5
Estimated living today 29,000480
Median age today 3768
Peak year 19921920
Best rank 132nd girls947th boys
Rank in 2025 2,583rdunranked
First recorded 18881880
Girls / boys 29,043 / 1,2620 / 1,859

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 Hilliards alive today are over 68; half the Hillarys are over 37. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Hillary and Hilliard.