Hillary
Hillary was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,592 among girls’ names; 30,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,400 Americans named Hillary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hillary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hillary mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hillary is “a female given name from Latin Hilaria.” Its etymology gives the sense “cheerfully” (hilare).
Also “a male given name from Latin Hilarius, variant of Hilary.”
From Latin Hilarius or Hilaria, from hilare (“cheerfully”) (compare English hilarious).
/ˈhɪ.lə.ɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hillary?
#2,592 among girls’ names, 2025
Hillary fell from #1,583 in 2015 to #2,592 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 77.3 to 41.7 per million.
2,527 babies in 1992, the peak
Hillary peaked in 1992, when 2,527 babies were given it (2,520 girls, #132 among girls’ names). The 67 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,592 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,335 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,473 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,474 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,833 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,071 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,476 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,267 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,727 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 172 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,583 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 154 | #1,452 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 157 | #1,454 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,380 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,380 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 200 | #1,237 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 412 | #722 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 282 | #961 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 265 | #983 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 285 | #885 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 311 | #809 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 225 | #1,024 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,079 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 259 | #887 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 252 | #876 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 254 | #852 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 243 | #868 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 294 | #725 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 312 | #693 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 310 | #688 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 409 | #566 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 1,064 | #261 | 0.59 |
| 1992 | 2,520 | #132 | 1.4 |
| 1991 | 1,791 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 1,525 | #192 | 0.80 |
| 1989 | 1,284 | #210 | 0.70 |
| 1988 | 1,084 | #245 | 0.61 |
| 1987 | 1,079 | #241 | 0.62 |
| 1986 | 1,083 | #239 | 0.63 |
| 1985 | 1,047 | #246 | 0.61 |
| 1984 | 1,009 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1983 | 697 | #330 | 0.42 |
| 1982 | 754 | #321 | 0.45 |
| 1981 | 735 | #322 | 0.44 |
| 1980 | 835 | #300 | 0.50 |
| 1979 | 921 | #264 | 0.57 |
| 1978 | 719 | #318 | 0.47 |
| 1977 | 442 | #451 | 0.29 |
| 1976 | 331 | #530 | 0.23 |
| 1975 | 322 | #537 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 312 | #540 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 252 | #613 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 242 | #634 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 251 | #650 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 257 | #641 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 198 | #718 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 178 | #742 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 155 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 124 | #907 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 111 | #984 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 132 | #911 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 148 | #862 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 112 | #1,017 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,270 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 83 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 94 | #1,083 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 89 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 99 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 71 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 43 | #1,415 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,012 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,989 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,616 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,342 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hillary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 30,305 Americans recorded as Hillary, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 67 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hillary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hillary, and how old are they?
28,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 30,305 Americans ever recorded as Hillary. The median Hillary alive today is 38 years old; half are between 33 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 27,773 people named Hillary (27,130 women and girls, 643 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 83 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Hillary born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,282 | 0.9× |
| California | 7 | #2,591 | 0.9× |
Where Hillary is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hillary is most over-represented in Vermont: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 Hillary 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 57,927 babies since 1880, Hillary is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 91 babies (74%), again the most given.
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 Hillary
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 Hillary and names like it
- Compare Hillary and HilaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sHillary peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hillary since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Hillary: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Hillary.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hillary alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.