Dillard
Dillard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 584th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192196 births
- Best rank
- #584in 1898
- Since 1880
- 3,730people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,730 boys have been named Dillard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 96 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 96 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dillard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 86 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 132 | |
| 1910s | 440 | |
| 1920s | 816 | |
| 1930s | 673 | |
| 1940s | 548 | |
| 1950s | 362 | |
| 1960s | 230 | |
| 1970s | 139 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 102 | |
| 2000s | 41 | |
| 2010s | 16 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dillard was the 658th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Dillard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alviepeak 1921
- Furmanpeak 1918
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Clydepeak 1920
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Howellpeak 1920
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Autherpeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.