Hilmar

Boys' name

Battle + famous

Hilmar has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1917, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Hilmar, 1945

1 in 531,000

Hilmar over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hilmar: meaning, origin, and history

Battle + famous

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hilmar means

Hilmar means “battle + famous”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hilmar is used in German, Icelandic, Norwegian and Danish.

Origin, language, and formation

Hilmar is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 boys were recorded with the name Hilmar between 1912 and 1945. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,734 in 1913.

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 Hilmar?

Hilmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1945, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1945: 1 in 531,000; 5 of 2,652,840 births
Among boys only: 1 in 269,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1945: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 367,763 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hilmar 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 1945 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 367,763 children born in 1945 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hilmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hilmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hilmar was born before 1921 — so the typical Hilmar is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Hilmar 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1917 (16)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,734; 1913

Spellings of Hilmar

Hilmar is not the most common spelling — Wilmer is, with 37.4% against Hilmar's 0.40%.

Wilmer37.4%15,979
Delmar33.3%14,242
Hillard5.5%2,356
Hilary5.1%2,197
Hillary3.0%1,262
Gilmer2.8%1,187
Gilman2.2%935
Tilman2.2%930

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 Hilmar is used

Across 1910–2025, Hilmar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 340,089 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Hilmar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hilmar around the world

Where Hilmar 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.

Norway
1880–2025
#370
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Hilmar 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: #1,734; 1913
Peak year: 1917; 16 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1945
All-time count: 170
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hilmar

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

Giomar Yosmar Hilman Leomar Hilal Xiomar Itamar Qamar Edmar Hilda Camar Hilery Hilding Hillis Hillel Romar Hilmer Aimar Jaymar Ismar Wilmar Othmar Josmar Raymar

Sibling names for Hilmar

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

For a sister

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Winnifred Maurine Johnie Dovie

For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe

Explore around Hilmar

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