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The POLHILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 337 56687 0 1
United States (1880 census) 133 25851 0 3
Change since 1880 +204 -30836 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 29 39563 0 2
United Kingdom 284 13179 0.001 6
Top States for POLHILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 57 27958 0.000 4
Illinois 57 23221 0.000 5
New Jersey 30 32614 0.000 4
California 29 70036 0.000 1
Georgia 28 17644 0.000 3
Top States for POLHILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 57 23221 0.000 5
Florida 57 27958 0.000 4
New Jersey 30 32614 0.000 4
Washington DC 2 28493 0.000 3
Georgia 28 17644 0.000 3

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of POLHILL

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 POLHILL 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 POLHILL 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 POLHILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 271 80.42
Black/African American 57 16.91
White (Hispanic) 8 2.37
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of POLHILL in historical publications

POLHILL. See under Polwhele. In the ancient deeds of the Cornish family, the spellings Polwhele and Polhill are employed indifferently. Nichol's Top. and Geneal., i. 180. The Polliills were certainly at Detling, co. Kent, in or before the reign of Edw. HI. An old spelling of the family was Policy.

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 POLHILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLHILL.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for POLHILL

The following words are slight variants of POLHILL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.