# Pilar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pilar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,258 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 753 / 5,505 (88% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 74 | 2,477 |
| 2012 | 80 | 2,354 |
| 2013 | 81 | 2,298 |
| 2014 | 63 | 2,773 |
| 2015 | 50 | 3,291 |
| 2016 | 43 | 3,645 |
| 2017 | 56 | 2,959 |
| 2018 | 42 | 3,661 |
| 2019 | 54 | 3,032 |
| 2020 | 48 | 3,266 |
| 2021 | 53 | 3,102 |
| 2022 | 47 | 3,402 |
| 2023 | 48 | 3,370 |
| 2024 | 45 | 3,496 |
| 2025 | 47 | 3,336 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 9 | 5,109 |
| 1989 | 11 | 4,737 |
| 1990 | 9 | 5,704 |
| 1991 | 7 | 7,079 |
| 1992 | 7 | 7,203 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,415 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,544 |
| 1995 | 6 | 8,602 |
| 1996 | 5 | 10,135 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,976 |
| 1998 | 7 | 8,226 |
| 2001 | 6 | 10,215 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,981 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,906 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,193 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |

## People named Pilar

- Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, Film director, Screenwriter (1940-1997)
- Pilar Campoy, Argentine field hockey player (born 1990)
- Pilar Quintana, Colombian writer
- Maria Canals-Barrera, American actress
- Pilita Corrales, Filipino singer, song writer, and comedian (1939–2025)
- Pia Cayetano, Filipino politician and lawyer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.