How Many Kids Does Hilary Duff Have? Family in 2026

The Short Answer: Four Kids

Hilary Duff has four children: one son and three daughters. Her eldest, Luca Cruz Comrie, is 14 (born March 20, 2012) and is shared with her ex-husband, former NHL player Mike Comrie. Her three daughters are with her husband, musician and producer Matthew Koma: Banks Violet Bair, 7 (born October 25, 2018); Mae James Bair, 5 (born March 24, 2021); and Townes Meadow Bair, 2 (born May 3, 2024).

It is a genuinely blended family: Luca arrived during Duff’s first marriage, while the three girls came after she married Koma in 2019. Duff has described the household as joyful chaos, and as of October 2026 the family of six is in the middle of a banner year — Duff released her first album in over a decade and landed on the Time 100 list.

Below is the full verified picture: Luca’s birth and the co-parenting setup, the middle daughters Banks and Mae, baby Townes and her unusual name, the husband behind the three girls, and what the family looks like in October 2026.

Luca: Her 14-Year-Old Son

Duff became a mother for the first time on March 20, 2012, when she welcomed Luca Cruz Comrie with then-husband Mike Comrie. Duff and Comrie, a former NHL center, married in 2010 and divorced in 2016, but they have co-parented Luca ever since. Now 14, Luca is the family’s only son and its elder statesman — a teenager navigating high school while his three little sisters run the roost.

The co-parenting relationship has been notably stable by Hollywood standards. Duff has spoken about filing for joint physical and legal custody early in the split and has kept things cordial with Comrie in the decade since. Luca has also grown up inside his mother’s second family: Matthew Koma has played a steady stepfather role, and Duff has said the kids function as one unit regardless of whose last name is on the birth certificate.

As of October 2026, Luca is 14 — old enough that Duff has joked about the age spread in her house, with a teenager at one end and a 2-year-old at the other.

Banks and Mae: The Middle Daughters

After marrying Matthew Koma in December 2019, Duff started a second chapter of motherhood. Daughter Banks Violet Bair was born on October 25, 2018 — she is 7 and turns 8 on October 25, 2026, just two weeks after this article’s publication. Sister Mae James Bair followed on March 24, 2021 and is 5 years old in October 2026.

Banks and Mae are the core of the Koma household’s daily rhythm — the two school-age girls whose schedules Duff organizes her work around. Duff has shared that the three-year gap between the girls made them natural partners in crime, and both have appeared in their mother’s warm, funny social media posts about the beautiful mayhem of raising four.

Koma, a musician and producer, is the father of all three girls. He and Duff have presented a united front on parenting from the start, with Duff crediting him publicly for holding down the household while she works — including during her 2026 touring schedule.

Townes: The 2-Year-Old Baby of the Family

The youngest Duff-Bair, Townes Meadow Bair, was born on May 3, 2024. Duff announced the birth on May 7, 2024 with black-and-white photos of a home water birth, writing that Townes had “made us wait so long” because “she was perfecting those cheeks.” Townes is 2 years old in October 2026 — still the baby of the family, and still the owner of the most unusual name in the bunch.

The name raised eyebrows in the best way. Townes is a surname-style first name more often given to boys, and Duff has never explained the choice publicly beyond the joy of the announcement. The pregnancy itself was revealed in December 2023 via the family’s Christmas card (“Buckle up Buttercups, we’re adding one more to this crazy bunch!”), and Duff was characteristically open about the long final weeks, joking she was “gently trying to give baby the eviction notice.”

Before Townes arrived, Duff had already called four kids “a truly wild choice” in an Instagram tribute to Koma — and then went ahead and did it anyway. In a July 2024 podcast appearance she shut down the idea of a fifth, saying she had no plans for more children after welcoming her fourth.

The Husband: Matthew Koma

Matthew Koma, a musician, songwriter and producer, married Duff in December 2019 and is the father of her three daughters — Banks, Mae and Townes. Where Luca’s dad Mike Comrie belongs to Duff’s first chapter, Koma is the partner of her second: the two built the current family of six together, and Duff has repeatedly credited him as the reason the “wild choice” of four kids works at all.

Koma keeps a lower public profile than his wife, but he is a constant presence in the family’s shared social media life — from the Christmas-card pregnancy reveal to the birth-day photos of Townes. Professionally he has also been central to Duff’s 2026 comeback, producing her first album in over a decade. The throughline of the Duff-Koma partnership, seven years in, is simple: he is the co-architect of the household and the career relaunch happening inside it.

Duff in 2026: Album, Tour and the Time 100

2026 has been Duff’s biggest professional year in a decade — and she did it as a mother of four. She released luck …or something, her first album in over a decade, made entirely on her own terms with Koma as producer and no label, manager or budget. The album fueled the Lucky Me Tour, with sold-out stops at the Kia Forum and Madison Square Garden and a 32-date extension into 2027 announced this year.

The comeback spilled into fashion and culture, too: a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit feature photographed in South Caicos, and a spot on Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2026. Through it all, the four kids have been the frame of the story — Duff has said she stepped back from the spotlight for years to raise Luca, Banks, Mae and Townes, and only returned to music when the youngest was old enough for mom to tour again.

Duff — photographed here in New York City in June 2017, seven years before Townes was born — has called this chapter the most intentional of her career. As of October 2026, the household is a family of six: a 14-year-old, a 7-year-old about to turn 8, a 5-year-old, a 2-year-old, and two parents running the show.

Four Birthdays in a Single Year

2026 was a birthday marathon in the Duff-Koma household. Luca CruzComrie turned 14 on March 20. Four days later, on March 24, Mae JamesBair turned 5. On May 3, Townes Meadow Bair turned 2. And on October25, 2026 — two weeks after this article’s publication — Banks VioletBair turns 8. From oldest to youngest, the four siblings span twelveyears: a high-school-age teenager at one end and a toddler at theother, with two grade-school girls in the middle.

The Marchdouble-header tells the family’s story in miniature. Luca, born in2012 during Duff’s first marriage to Mike Comrie, celebrates four daysbefore Mae, born in 2021 to Duff and Matthew Koma — two chapters ofthe same family, nearly a decade apart, sharing one birthday week. Thehousehold runs on two rhythms at once: Luca splitting time between hismother’s home and his father’s under the joint-custody arrangement setup after the 2016 divorce, and the three Bair girls — Banks, Mae andTownes — growing up full-time in the Duff-Koma home, with Koma thesteady stepfather Luca has known since he was 7.

What makes thecalendar work, by Duff’s own account, is Koma. The musician-producerhas been the co-architect of the second chapter: holding down thehousehold through the 2026 touring schedule, producing the comebackalbum, and — in Duff’s words from her Instagram tribute — making the“truly wild choice” of four kids possible at all. As of October 2026,the count stands at four children, two parents, one blended family ofsix — and a birthday cake roughly every other month.

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