Hillard
Hillard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 628th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192682 births
- Best rank
- #628in 1906
- Since 1880
- 2,356people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,356 boys have been named Hillard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 82 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hillard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 26 | |
| 1890s | 51 | |
| 1900s | 69 | |
| 1910s | 374 | |
| 1920s | 669 | |
| 1930s | 391 | |
| 1940s | 301 | |
| 1950s | 217 | |
| 1960s | 127 | |
| 1970s | 90 | |
| 1980s | 24 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 11 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Hillard was the 704th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Hillard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clairpeak 1923
- Wilfordpeak 1926
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Virglepeak 1924
- Hermonpeak 1920
- Rudolphpeak 1927
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.