Hilliard

Where Hilliard comes from

Hilliard hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1879
    Hilliard Lyle born
    Canadian lacrosse player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1896
    Peak, #518
    16 babies named Hilliard — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #942.
  5. 1950
    Hilliard Graves born
    Canadian ice hockey player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hilliard Lyle · Canadian lacrosse player, 1879–1931
  • Hilliard Graves · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1950
  • Hilliard Karr · American comedic actor of the silent movie era, 1899–1945
  • Hilliard Greene · American musician, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.