The HILLS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,867	2589	0.005	48
United States (1880 census)	4,579	1360	0.009	92
Change since 1880	+8288	-1229	-0.004	-44
Other Countries
Australia	2,064	779	0.013	126
United Kingdom	9,678	619	0.021	211

Top States for HILLS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	996	2101	0.006	62
California	986	3190	0.003	29
Louisiana	886	747	0.020	198
New York	779	2472	0.004	41
Michigan	734	1536	0.007	74
Top States for HILLS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	886	747	0.020	198
Maine	235	1102	0.018	184
New Hampshire	156	1286	0.013	126
Oregon	333	1272	0.010	97
South Carolina	355	1849	0.009	88

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HILLS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HILLS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HILLS in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HILLS by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HILLS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HILLS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HILLS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HILLS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	189	1.47
White (Hispanic)	178	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	78	0.61
Asian/Pacific	69	0.54
White (Caucasian)	8,598	66.82
Black/African American	3,755	29.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HILLS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to HILLS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HILLS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.