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Dillard

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dillard has been given to 3,730 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 96 recorded.

Babies named Dillard, 2014

1 in 741,000

Dillard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dillard: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dillard means

Dillard is a given name.

The naming story behind Dillard

Wikidata records Dillard as a given name. The entity identifier is Q59204887, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,730 boys were recorded with the name Dillard between 1880 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 96 in 1921; its best national rank was #583 in 1898.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dillard?

Dillard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dillard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dillard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dillards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dillard was born before 1934 — so the typical Dillard is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
962
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (816).

Is Dillard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (96)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#583
1898

Spellings of Dillard

Dillard is not the most common spelling — Willard is, with 68.5% against Dillard's 3.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dillard is used

Across 1910–2025, Dillard was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 39,671 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,692
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 11,111
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 20,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dillard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Dillard

People whose public names include Dillard, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dillard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#583
1898
Peak year
1921
96 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
3,730
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dillard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DillionShepardDillanHaywardRashardKennardDilanBallardMaynardEduardRaynardMillardDurwardGerhardHillardLenardEdgardGerrardHarvardDillianVernardHeywardRenardReshard

Names with a curve like Dillard

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dillard, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlvieLoyClaranceMargaretVerlinHermonBeverlyTheadoreBertrandGarnettHowellDenzil

Sibling names for Dillard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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