Hilarius
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Hilar: männl. Vom. latei nischen Ursprungs (zu lat
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hˌilarˈius/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilarius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 110K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 180K
- SESweden1 in 249K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
157 people
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
) Hilar: männl. Vom. latei nischen Ursprungs (zu lat. hilarus, -a, -um »heiter, fröhlich«). Zur Verbreitung des Na
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hilarius is read(measured from records)
Hilarius is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilarius in Indonesian.
- German12%
) Hilar: männl. Vom. latei nischen Ursprungs (zu lat. hilarus, -a, -um »heiter, fröhlich«). Zur Verbreitung des Na
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
from Latin Hilarius 'the cheerful one'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Hindi6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilarius in Hindi.
- English5.2%
pope
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilarius 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 157 | 1 in 110K | 157 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 41 | 1 in 249K | 41 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 182 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | — | 3 | Hilarius | 11 |
157 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hilarius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, from Greek hilaros 'cheerful'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, name of a fourth-century saint, meaning cheerful, happy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hilarius of Aquileiab. 200ITRoman Catholic bishop
- Hilarius Pictaviensisb. 315FRBishop of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367)
- Hilary of Arlesb. 401FRnot in their usual namebishop of Arles
- Hilariusb. 415ITpope (415-468)
- Hilariusb. 1075FRAugustinian canon and poet
- Theobald Hilarius Marchandb. 1741FRactor
- Hilarius Breitingerb. 1907DEGerman priest (1907-1994)
- Hilarius Gilgesb. 1909DEGerman actor, dancer and activist
- Gregor von Rezzorib. 1914ATnot in their usual nameAustrian journalist, actor and writer (1914–1998)
- Hilarius Moa Nurakb. 1943IDRoman-Catholic bishop (1943-2016)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 182 | #2,020 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 157 | #3,340 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41 | #15,500 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 36 | #14,218 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 31 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #17,175 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #13,033 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hilarius?
- A machine transcription gives /hˌilarˈius/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Hilarius mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Hilar: männl. Vom. latei nischen Ursprungs (zu lat.
- Is Hilarius a male or female name?
- Hilarius is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Hilarius?
- In the etymology graph, Hilario, Hilarion and Ilario are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hilarius have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 157 people named Hilarius, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hilarius most common?
- Hilarius is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 110 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hilarius?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 157 people named Hilarius, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hilariusThe 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, “Hilarius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.