Hilaria
A Latin name meaning "cheerful". Barely used in Poland now: only about a hundred women carry it, and the registry recorded no newborns last year, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Hilaria Pronunciation
Hilaria is pronounced khee-LAHR-yah (/xiˈlarja/).
What Hilaria means
Where Hilaria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hilaria comes from the Latin hilaris, which meant cheerful. The same root reached English as the word hilarious and left the variant Hilary. In Polish the meaning stays close: wesoła, pogodna.
The Romans held a festival called the Hilaria, days of public rejoicing each spring for the goddess Cybele. The name draws on that same root of good cheer. Its meaning is simply cheerful.
The variant Hilary has served both women and men. Hilary of Poitiers, a fourth-century bishop, bore the masculine Latin form Hilarius.
On a Polish class register, Hilaria sits rare among the Julias and Zuzannas. A teacher reads it once and keeps it. Its short form is Hilary, and it means the same thing: cheerful.
When Hilaria celebrates name day
Hilaria appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 April.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Hilaria
1 in 212678 women in Poland is named Hilaria. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3314 among female names.
Hilaria as a middle name
Hilaria is a first name for 106 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1108th, between Grazia (39) and Hélène (39).
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#1106 Gina39
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#1107 Grazia39
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#1108 Hilaria39
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#1109 Hélène39
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#1110 Ivanna39