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Hilario

#3,687 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hilarius

Hilario has been given to 4,681 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #3,687 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Hilario, 2025

1 in 111,000

Hilario over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hilario: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hilarius

Spanish, Latin and Galician

What Hilario means

Hilario is a form of Hilarius.

Origin, language, and formation

Hilario is used in Cebuano, Galician, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish, Latin and Galician.

Hilario comes through Spanish Hilario.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilarius and Hilary.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Hilario is pronounced /iˈlaɾjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,681 boys were recorded with the name Hilario between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1996; its best national rank was #840 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,605 in 2020 to #3,687 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,814 in 2015 to #3,687 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hilario?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,687
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hilario 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 2025 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hilario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hilarios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hilario was born before 1976 — so the typical Hilario is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,385
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.4% of all recorded uses (625).

Is Hilario 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
−138
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−82
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+127
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.3%
Peak was 1996 (71)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
1929

Spellings of Hilario

Hilario is the most-used spelling, taking 68.1% of the 6,878 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Hilario68.1%4,681
  • Hilary31.9%2,197

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 Hilario is used

Across 1910–2025, Hilario was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 19,896 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 6,250
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

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. Hilario has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hilario around the world

Where Hilario ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1919–2025
    #4,948
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Hilario

People whose public names include Hilario, 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.

Hilario in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hilario. Linked forms have their own page here.

HilariHilaryIlarioHilarius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hilario by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 82
Best rank ever
#840
1929
Peak year
1996
71 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,681
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Hilario

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

HiltonRosarioDemarioMacarioHillelHillardHilbertSaverioPorfirioJamarioDemetrioDamarioHillaryRomarioHilaryNazarioGregorioHilliardSilverioVittorioValerioHilleryHildredDario

Names with a curve like Hilario

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

FaustinoClementeDentonFerminRosendoLeopoldoReymundoAmadorMarshalBlasReyesLavon

Sibling names for Hilario

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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