Entry № 4472 · Welsh origin

Ilar Ilar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-lar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Cheerful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "cheerful".

Ilar is the Welsh form of Hilary, from the Latin hilaris — cheerful, glad. It carries lightness and good humour.

It reads sunny and easy, a glad-hearted name.

Cheerful — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Ilar
Transliteration
Ilar
Pronunciation
/ ˈi.lar /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ilar stands.

Ilar does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ilars before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ilar.

The number behind Ilar.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ilar reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.