Hilarie
Hilarie was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 771 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 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 Hilarie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hilarie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,545, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1981, the peak
Hilarie peaked in 1981, when 32 girls were given it, #2,803 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #18,545 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,176 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,308 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,301 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,205 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,060 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,706 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,748 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,129 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,640 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 17 | #4,914 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,550 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,038 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,517 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,774 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,965 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,661 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,803 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,440 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,179 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,137 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,305 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,440 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,320 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,755 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,685 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,101 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,094 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,733 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,843 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,899 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,457 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,061 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,173 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,689 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,022 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,101 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,924 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,132 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,040 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,675 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,231 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,883 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,627 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,326 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,273 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,851 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,127 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,663 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,351 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hilarie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hilarie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hilarie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hilarie, and how old are they?
An estimated 701 Americans named Hilarie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 40 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 779 people named Hilarie (775 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 Hilarie?
Hilarie is a less common spelling of Hillary: SSA has recorded 771 Hilarie and 30,305 Hillary since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 59,231 babies since 1880, Hilarie is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 97 babies recorded by SSA was a Hilarie (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 Hilarie
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 Hilarie and names like it
- Compare Hilarie and HillaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHilarie peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hilarie since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Hilarie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hilarie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.