boys:
4.6k births since 1885
#1778 (61st percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1885
#4016 (48th percentile)
The name Hilario is the #4,016 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,618 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 48.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,778 (61.2% percentile) for all time with 4,618 births since 1885.
Hilario first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for boys in 1885). Birth data for Hilario is available in 120 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Hilario reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #475) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 58 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Despite a low point around 2012, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Hilario ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 23.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hilario".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hilario. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.5% confident that Hilario is pronounced as hih-LAH-ree-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LAH-ree-oh, at 35.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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