Ilaria

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Ilaria

Say it: ee-LAH-ryah

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Meaning

From Latin hilaria, from hilaris 'cheerful'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

538 babies given this name since 1968
At its height in 2020, about 1 in 39,000 girls
41 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

English	Hilary

Famous bearers

Ilaria del Carretto, whose tomb by Jacopo della Quercia is in Lucca

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Where this comes from

Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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