Hillard

Where Hillard comes from

French Hillard, from Hilaire + -ard.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hillard
Hillard through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #613
    15 babies named Hillard, its best rank.
  3. 1910
    Hillard Bell Huntington born
    American physicist
  4. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #4,404.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Hillard Bell Huntington · American physicist, 1910–1992

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.