Hillard
Hillard was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 2,356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hillard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hillard mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hillard is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
French Hillard, from Hilaire + -ard.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hillard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,321, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1926, the peak
Hillard peaked in 1926, when 82 boys were given it, #704 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #11,321 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,860 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,702 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,847 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,355 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,747 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,729 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,972 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,394 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,788 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,564 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,501 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,209 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,639 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,334 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,346 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,247 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,148 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,094 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,325 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,264 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,020 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,194 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,110 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 55 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 45 | #989 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 53 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 65 | #803 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 63 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 64 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 82 | #704 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 71 | #781 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 65 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 61 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 66 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 71 | #807 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 61 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 60 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 62 | #833 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 45 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 58 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 49 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 36 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 28 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,118 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 9 | #986 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 9 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 15 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 9 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,129 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,213 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 8 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 6 | #984 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 9 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 8 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 7 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 10 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,069 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 9 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 6 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #865 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hillard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hillard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hillard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hillard, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Hillard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 58 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 640 people named Hillard (9 women and girls, 631 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 703 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below 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).
Where are babies named Hillard born?
The states with the most babies named Hillard are Kentucky, Illinois and Alabama, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 124 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 116 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 81 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 69 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hillard is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hillard is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hillard with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,215 babies since 1880, Hillard is the most given (56% of them).
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 Hillard
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 Hillard and names like it
- Compare Hillard and HilliardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHillard peaked in 1926.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hillard since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hillard: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Hillard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hillard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.