The HILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	411,770	41	0.153	1,526
United States (1880 census)	106,501	28	0.213	2,130
Change since 1880	+305269	-13	-0.06	-604
Other Countries
Australia	21,759	38	0.133	1,331
United Kingdom	96,061	30	0.209	2,092

Top States for HILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	32,309	44	0.155	1,549
California	28,068	78	0.083	829
Florida	22,735	46	0.142	1,423
North Carolina	20,193	24	0.251	2,509
Ohio	19,730	27	0.174	1,738
Top States for HILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	15,531	19	0.349	3,492
Mississippi	8,360	25	0.294	2,939
Tennessee	15,830	24	0.278	2,782
Arkansas	7,231	19	0.270	2,705
North Carolina	20,193	24	0.251	2,509

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

Classification and Origin of HILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HILL 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 HILL 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 HILL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	275,186	66.83
Black/African American	117,025	28.42
Mixed Race	7,330	1.78
White (Hispanic)	6,753	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	3,747	0.91
Asian/Pacific	1,729	0.42

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

Meaning of HILL in historical publications

HILL. From i-esidence upon one. Its medieval form is Atte-Hill. The Lond. Direct, has more than two hundred traders of this name, besides about one-eighth of that number in the pluralized form of Hills. The most distinguished family of this name, the Hills of Hawkstone (Viscount Hill), deduce themselves from Hugh de la HuUe (' of the Hill '), who held the estate of Court of Hill in the parish of Burford, co. Salop, temp. Richard I. Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men, p. 197. The Hills of Stallington, co. Stafford, are descended from the family of De Monte, of Castle IMorton, co. AVorcester, and they bore that name till the XV. cent., when it was anglicized to Hyll. See Nash's Worcestershire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to HILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HILL.

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.