Hilary is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hilary is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Hilary. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hilary is #3,440 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 21,001 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Hilary. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Hilary occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Hilary is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Hilary is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 20,776 women and girls of all generations bear the name Hilary – that is one in 7,421. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in New Hampshire, where one in 3,074 women and girls is called Hilary, while it is particularly rare in Hawaii, where you have to ask an average of 88,259 women for their name to get Hilary as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Hilary is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Hilary and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hilary, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hilary
Hilary
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
I
L
A
R
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
I
L
A
R
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hilary sounds like this:
