Pilar
From Latin, the word for a pillar or column. It stays rare in Poland: only 39 women carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Pilar Pronunciation
Pilar is pronounced PEE-lahr (/ˈpilar/).
What Pilar means
Where Pilar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pilar begins in Latin, in the word pila, a pillar or column of stone. The Spanish took it up as a name, and the English sense stays exact. Pilar means pillar.
The pillar is not abstract. In Zaragoza there is a shrine to Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Our Lady of the Pillar, and the legend fixes the devotion to a column of jasper. From that shrine the name spread, and Spanish families mark it on 12 October, the feast of the Pilar.
For a Polish register the name reads as foreign, and it stays foreign. It has no diminutive here, no cousin form to soften it. A teacher reading a class list meets Pilar whole, four letters, no shortening.
The meaning holds under all of this. Filar, kolumna: the thing that carries a roof and does not move.
How many people are named Pilar
1 in 578047 women in Poland is named Pilar. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6264 among female names.
Pilar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Pilar as a middle name
Pilar is a first name for 39 women in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1037th, between Maureen (44) and Saba (44).
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#1035 Malka44
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#1036 Maureen44
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#1037 Pilar44
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#1038 Saba44
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#1039 Sky44