Pilar
Pilar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005137 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1896
- 6,210people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,457 girls have been named Pilar in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 137 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 2000s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 753 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pilar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 28 | |
| 1910s | 154 | |
| 1920s | 261 | |
| 1930s | 165 | |
| 1940s | 138 | |
| 1950s | 246 | |
| 1960s | 529 | |
| 1970s | 626 | |
| 1980s | 573 | |
| 1990s | 760 | |
| 2000s | 1,099 | |
| 2010s | 627 | |
| 2020s | 241 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Pilar was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Pilar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hopepeak 2000
- Luzpeak 1999
- Myriampeak 2003
- Lidiapeak 2008
- Angelenapeak 2005
- Caterinapeak 2014
- Mirianpeak 2003
- Rinapeak 1980
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.