girls:
5.4k births since 1896
#2276 (60th percentile)
boys:
753 births since 1913
#3834 (16th percentile)
overall:
6.2k births since 1896
#3451 (55th percentile)
The name Pilar is the #3,451 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,163 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 55.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,276 (60.2% percentile) for all time with 5,410 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #3,834 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 753 births since 1913.
Pilar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Pilar is available in 120 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (120 years for girls and 85 years for boys). 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 Pilar has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Pilar were girls.
For girls, Pilar reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 14.1% percentile (ranked #807) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 68 births per million (ranked 14.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Pilar ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 39.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Pilar reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #591) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pilar".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Pilar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.3% confident that Pilar is pronounced as pih-LAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PEE-lahr, at 17.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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