Hilari
Hilari was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hilari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hilari?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,388, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1978, the peak
Hilari peaked in 1978, when 15 girls were given it, #4,514 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,388 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,654 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,429 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,820 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,332 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,418 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,726 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,085 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,026 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,933 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 9 | #7,574 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,995 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,998 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,910 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,717 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,499 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,456 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,695 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,514 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,112 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,738 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,427 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,450 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,887 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,716 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,386 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,933 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hilari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hilari has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hilari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hilari, and how old are they?
An estimated 217 Americans named Hilari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 35 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Hilari (297 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Hilari?
Hilari is a less common spelling of Hillary: SSA has recorded 226 Hilari and 30,305 Hillary since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 59,372 babies since 1880, Hilari is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 97 babies recorded by SSA was a Hilari (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hilari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hilari and names like it
- Compare Hilari and HillaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sHilari peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Hilari.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hilari alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.