Hilary (name)

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Hilary, Hilarie or Hillary is a given name and surname, derived from the Latin hilarius meaning "cheerful", from hilaris, "cheerful, merry",<ref>hilaris, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, on Perseus</ref> which comes from the Greek ἱλαρός (hilaros), "cheerful, merry",<ref>ἱλαρός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus</ref> which in turn comes from ἵλαος (hilaos), "propitious, gracious".<ref>ἵλαος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus</ref> Ilaria is the popular Italian feminine form, while Ilario is the Italian masculine one. Other male forms are Hilarion, Ilarion, and Illarion.

In the 1990s and first few decades of the twenty-first century, the name was strongly associated in the United States with Hillary Clinton. Its popularity for newborn American girls dropped rapidly during the beginning of her husband's presidency of the United States.<ref name="HilaryParker_most_poisoned_name">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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