Pilär
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pilär is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).
- ESSpain1 in 406(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 905
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #675 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- 1 in 406 (inferred from the name graph)
123,094 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pilar in PE Peru, ES Spain, CL Chile and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*pīlāre(measured from records)
- Latinpīla“pillar”(measured from records)
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pilär counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #31 | 123,094 | 1 in 406 | 134K | Pilar | 234 |
| PH Philippines | #764 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Pilar | 86 |
| CO Colombia | #222 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 9 | Pilar | 164 |
| PE Peru | #35 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Pilar | 116 |
| CL Chile | #32 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | 36 | Pilar | 130 |
| AR Argentina | #264 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 2.6K | Pilar | 129 |
123,094 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pilär mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Pilär a male or female name?
- Pilär is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pilär have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Pilär, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pilar.
- Where is Pilär most common?
- Pilär is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 406 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pilär?
- In Spain, the national register counted 123,094 people named Pilär, about 1 in 406 residents.
- How common is Pilär compared with other names?
- In Spain, Pilär is the 31st most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pil%C3%A4rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pilär” — the 31st most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.