Hillary is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Hillary is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,745 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,744 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 25,947 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Hillary. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Hillary may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Hillary is apparently especially popular in Vermont. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,665 women in Vermont is called Hillary. In total, that’s 157 women who feel addressed when the name Hillary is shouted loudly across Vermont and who ensure that their name makes it to #308 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Hillary as the answer a total of 25,842 times. This places Hillary at #765 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Hillary as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 seven letters, the name Hillary has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Hillary 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 Hillary, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hillary
Hillary
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
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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
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. Hillary sounds like this:
