Hillary
Hillary is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 132nd, in 1992.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19922,521 births
- Best rank
- #132in 1992
- Since 1922
- 30,239people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,977 girls have been named Hillary in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 2,521 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 79 births in 2024, against 2,521 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 33%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,262 boys have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hillary | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 229 | |
| 1950s | 708 | |
| 1960s | 1,344 | |
| 1970s | 4,050 | |
| 1980s | 9,607 | |
| 1990s | 8,722 | |
| 2000s | 2,688 | |
| 2010s | 1,289 | |
| 2020s | 335 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Hillary was the 132nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Hillary
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Channelpeak 1991
- Shaneepeak 1990
- Shaneapeak 1991
- Caressapeak 1987
- Chelsapeak 1990
- Shannelpeak 1986
- Markitapeak 1985
- Laquishapeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.