Pilar

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Pilar boys named Pilar

Girls and boys called Pilar

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 5,505 girls and 753 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 47 to 0.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 96 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

6,258

Estimated living today

5,100

Median age today

32

Peak year

2005

Best rank

1,513th

Rank in 2025

3,296th

First recorded

1896

Girls / boys

5,505 / 753

How old the living Pilars are

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,258 babies given the name since 1896, about 5,100 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 490 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Pilars

• Pilar Bardem (1939–2021)Spanish film and television actress
• Pilar López de Ayala (born 1978)Spanish actress
• Pilar Lorengar (1928–1996)Spanish operatic soprano
• Pilar Pellicer (1938–2020)Mexican actress
• Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (1940–1997)Film director, Screenwriter
• Pilar Llop (born 1973)Spanish judge and politician
• Pilar Castro (born 1970)Spanish actress
• Pilar Montenegro (born 1972)Mexican actor and singer

People named Pilar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pilar is most common

• CA1,255
• TX1,225
• NY435
• FL165
• IL128
• AZ47
• NJ24
• GA23
• PA16
• NC16

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pilar is most concentrated in Texas (4.7×), California (3.7×), New York (1.7×), Florida (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular girls’ names the year Pilar peaked:

• Emily
• Emma
• Madison
• Abigail
• Olivia
• Isabella

All the names of 2005

Pilar elsewhere

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.

Pilar: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Pilar: rank by region

In 2012, Pilar was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2015, Pilar was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pilar among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Pilar lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 123,094 women called Pilar 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

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.