Hillel — #3277 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hillel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,428 babies named Hillel between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hillel currently holds the #3277 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 47 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hillel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 306 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Hillel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 685 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Hillel in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hillel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,428 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.