Meaning & origin
How it developed
From French Hillard, built from French Hilaire + ard.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hillard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,356
- 2,356 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 82 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 82 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 640 as a first name in 2020; 5,690 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hillard’s family of names
Hillard has a related form in Hilliard.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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