Hillary

girls:

28.9k births since 1922

#838 (85th percentile)

boys:

1.3k births since 1888

#3348 (27th percentile)

overall:

30.2k births since 1888

#1464 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hillary".

1888 2023 18882023

Key Statistics

Total Births
28,897
Peak Births
2,521
Peak Year
1992
First Recorded
1922
Peak Percentile
84.8%
Current Percentile
7.0%
Peak Rank
#131
Current Rank
#881
Female statistics
Total Births
1,262
Peak Births
27
Peak Year
1954
First Recorded
1888
Peak Percentile
3.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#203
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Hillary

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hillary. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.7% confident that Hillary is pronounced as HIH-ler-ee. The next most likely pronunciation is HIH-luh-ree, at 9.3% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Hillary. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Hillary, please vote using the thumbs up button.

HAI-ler-ee (3 syllables)
3 names 27.2k births
HH AY1 L ER0 IY0
HIH-ler-EE (3 syllables)
1 name 996 births
HH IH1 L ER0 IY1

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH IH1 L ER0 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.