Given name & surname
Ilario
“a cheerful man”
Ilario is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “a cheerful man.”
Original ItalianIlarino
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “a cheerful man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ilario through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 191
- 191 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,072 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,072 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 487 as a first name in 2020; 112 as a surname in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ilario’s family of names
In Italian usage, Ilario has a diminutive in ILARINO. Ilario shares a linguistic root with Hilary. In Italian usage, Ilario has a conventional equivalent in the English form Hillary.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ilario has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Ilarinodiminutive · Italian
- Illariolikely variant
- Ilareavariant
- Ilareevariant
- Ilareyvariant
- Ilaryvariant · English
- Ilarievariant
- Ilarivariant
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Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ilario
- Ilario Di BuòItalian archerborn 1965
- Ilario AntoniazziCatholic archbishopborn 1948
- Ilario CastagnerItalian footballer and manager (1940–2023)
- Ilario CarposioAustro-Hungarian photographer1852–1921
- Ilario Bandiniracecar driver (1911–1992)
- Ilario Pegorarialpine skier (1949–1982)
- Ilario CasolanoItalian painter (1588-1661)
- Ilario MonterisiItalian footballer born in 2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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