Hilliard
Hilliard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 524th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192053 births
- Best rank
- #524in 1896
- Since 1880
- 1,859people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,859 boys have been named Hilliard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 53 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 53 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hilliard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 73 | |
| 1890s | 70 | |
| 1900s | 93 | |
| 1910s | 322 | |
| 1920s | 408 | |
| 1930s | 230 | |
| 1940s | 241 | |
| 1950s | 182 | |
| 1960s | 121 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 50 | |
| 1990s | 13 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Hilliard was the 953rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hilliard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Websterpeak 1915
- Horacepeak 1921
- Finispeak 1922
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Monroepeak 1921
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Lonzopeak 1919
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.