girls:
50 births since 1915
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
6.9k births since 1882
#1416 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1882
#3231 (58th percentile)
The name Hilton is the #3,231 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,947 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 58.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,416 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 6,897 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1915.
Hilton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Hilton is available in 136 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (136 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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.
The name Hilton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hilton reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 24.0% percentile (ranked #407) with 125 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 147 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hilton ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hilton reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hilton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hilton is pronounced as HIHL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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