Pilar f
Spanish: name referring to a title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Pilar ‘Our Lady of the Pillar’. The story is that in AD 40 the Virgin appeared, standing on a pillar, to St James the Greater at Saragossa. The vocabulary word pilar is masculine, but this has not inhibited its use as a feminine given name.
Pet forms: Pili (most commonly found in the combination Maripili); Pilita, Piluca.
First names dictionary. 2012.