Hillery — boys' name

What the Data Says About Hillery

The Social Security Administration has registered 501 babies named Hillery between 1887 and 1983, spanning 97 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hillery currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Hillery is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 495 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hillery performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Hillery shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hillery in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hillery 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 501 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.