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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Hilary

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#5,301

down −1,306 places

2025 births

24

down −13 births

All-time births

24,171

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1990
1,217 births
Best rank
#232
in 1990
First recorded
1914
#3,872 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1982
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
104 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19901,217#232Peak
  2. 19921,170#234
  3. 19911,149#242
  4. 19851,054#244
  5. 19891,026#261

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #232 in 1990 · peak births 1,217 in 1990

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 8% boys■ 92% girls

2,197 boys · 24,171 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Hilary has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.