Hilton
Hilton reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 521, and has been recorded 6,990 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 3,100 Hiltons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hilton boys named Hilton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,990
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 521st
- Rank in 2025
- 6,446th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 65 / 6,925
How old the living Hiltons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,990 babies given the name since 1882, about 3,100 are alive — 45 in every hundred. Roughly 440 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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.
Notable Hiltons
- Hilton Valentine (1943–2021)British guitarist
- Hilton Armstrong (born 1984)American basketball player
- Hilton Ruiz (1952–2006)American musician of Puerto Rican descent
People named Hilton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hilton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hilton is most concentrated in Louisiana (12.5×), Mississippi (10.0×), Georgia (4.8×), North Carolina (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Hilton peaked:
Hilton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Hilton | 95 | 2,319th |
| France boys | Hilton | 55 | 5,092nd |
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.
Related names
Hilton 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.