Popularity of the last name by country
Germany
- Hessen (5,010)
- Bayern (3,576)
- Rheinland Pfalz (2,275)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (1,490)
- Mecklenburg Vorpommern (1,165)
- Baden-Württemberg (1,082)
- Berlin (916)
- Niedersachsen (524)
- Thuringen (370)
- Brandenburg (289)
- Bremen (153)
- Sachsen (150)
- Hamburg (90)
- Saarland (88)
- Schleswig Holstein (64)
- Sachsen Anhalt (15)
All countries
- United Kingdom (922,359)
- United States (613,815)
- Australia (44,762)
- Ireland (39,936)
- New Zealand (39,536)
- France (28,509)
- Germany (21,308)
- Canada (17,048)
- Austria (13,091)
- Unknown country (12,846)
- Netherlands (8,512)
- Sweden (6,205)
- Switzerland (2,844)
- Hungary (2,124)
- Spain (1,805)
- Italy (1,643)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (1,405)
- Belgium (1,317)
- Colombia (1,268)
- Mexico (1,077)
- India (1,005)
- Denmark (1,001)
- Greece (829)
- Russian Federation (753)
- Finland (683)
- Romania (593)
- Norway (572)
- China (535)
- South Africa (449)
- Poland (431)
- Argentina (397)
- Czech republic (364)
- Latvia (350)
- Indonesia (300)
- Cuba (288)
- Jamaica (268)
- Turkey (259)
- Portugal (240)
- Lebanon (230)
- Egypt (207)
Origine of last name
HILL : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill from Middle English hill hell hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hiller">Hiller</a>. This surname is also very common among African Americans.2: English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille a pet form of some name such as <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hilger">Hilger</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hillary">Hillary</a>.3: German: from a short form of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hildebrand">Hildebrand</a> or any of a variety of other names male and female containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.4: Americanized form (translation into English) of Finnish Mäki ‘hill’ or of any of various other names formed with this element (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Maki">Maki</a>).5: Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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