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Hilary

The name Hilary carries the meaning "Latin hilaris, cheerful", with roots in Latin. It belongs mostly to the 1980s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. The registry counts around 26,065 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.

EtymologyVariant of Hillary
LatinLatin "hilaris" – "cheerful"
Births by decade
1900s
36
1910s
311
1920s
467
1930s
403
1940s
732
1950s
1,614
1960s
2,577
1970s
5,082
1980s
8,448
1990s
4,576
2000s
1,361
2010s
458
Peaked in the 1980s · 26,065 total U.S. births since 1900