Hillary
The girl's name Hillary has been in the national records since 1888, with 30,305 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,583rd. About 29,000 Hillarys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hillary boys named Hillary
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 30,305
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 132nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,583rd
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 29,043 / 1,262
How old the living Hillarys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 30,305 babies given the name since 1888, about 29,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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 Latin
From Latin Hilarius or Hilaria, from hilare (“cheerfully”) (compare English hilarious).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hillarys
- Hillary Clinton (born 1947)American politician and diplomat
- Hillary Scott (born 1983)American pornographic actress
- Hillary Brooke (1914–1999)American film actress
- Hillary Wolf (born 1977)American actor and judoka
- Hillary Scott (born 1986)American singer and songwriter
- Hillary Lindsey (born 1976)American singer-songwriter
- Hillary Janssens (born 1994)Canadian rower
People named Hillary with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hillary is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hillary is most concentrated in Vermont (3.5×), New Hampshire (2.4×), Utah (2.1×), Maine (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular girls’ names the year Hillary peaked:
Hillary elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Hillary | 365 | 1,062nd |
| England and Wales girls | Hillary | 123 | 2,367th |
| Ireland girls | Hillary | 63 | 331st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Hillary lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 177 women called Hillary were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Hillary | 11 | 0.019 | 3,514 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Hillary | 10 | 0.018 | 3,304 |
| Asturias | Hillary | 9 | 0.017 | 2,122 |
| Balears, Illes | Hillary | 10 | 0.016 | 2,936 |
| Madrid | Hillary | 44 | 0.012 | 3,259 |
| Valencia/València | Hillary | 11 | 0.008 | 4,340 |
Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Hillary against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.