Hillery
The boy's name Hillery has been in the national records since 1887, with 996 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1998. About 620 Hillerys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hillery boys named Hillery
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 996
- Estimated living today
- 620
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,980th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 495 / 501
How old the living Hillerys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 996 babies given the name since 1887, about 620 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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 Hillery is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hillery is most concentrated in Louisiana (31.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Hillery peaked:
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Hillery against another name
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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.