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Hillard

Boys' name

Hilaire with the suffix -ard

Hillard has been given to 2,356 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 1926, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Hillard, 2002

1 in 747,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hillard: meaning, origin, and history

Hilaire with the suffix -ard

surname transfer

What Hillard means

Hillard is formed from Hilaire with the suffix -ard.

Origin, language, and formation

Hillard is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Hillard comes through French Hillard.

Hillard is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilaire.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,356 boys were recorded with the name Hillard between 1880 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1926; its best national rank was #628 in 1906.

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 Hillard?

Hillard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hillard 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hillard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hillards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hillard was born before 1929 — so the typical Hillard is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
475
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1920s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (669).

Is Hillard 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 1926 (82)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#628
1906

Spellings of Hillard

Hillard is not the most common spelling — Willard is, with 69.2% against Hillard's 2.1%.

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 Hillard is used

Across 1910–2025, Hillard was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 118,800 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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

Hillard 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
—
Best rank ever
#628
1906
Peak year
1926
82 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
2,356
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hillard

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

HilliardHilarioHillelKennardRashardHilbertShepardHiltonHillaryBallardHaywardHilaryEduardEdgardGerhardGerrardHarvardVernardHeywardDurwardRaynardHilleryDillardHildred

Names with a curve like Hillard

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

EstelMerlNorvalVirgleArvelOrlandVerlFinisVesterEwellFoyManley

Sibling names for Hillard

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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