Hill

At the 2020 census, 419,076 Americans bore the surname Hill — 41st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 713.

By the numbers

People: 419,076
Rank: 41st
How common: 1 in 713
Per 100,000: 140.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from the noun hill, shortened from Hilary, and from Old English hild (“battle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hill described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.0%
Black, not Hispanic 28.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hill

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970)American author
Archibald Hill (1886–1977)English physiologist and biophysicist
Terence Hill (born 1939)Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
Damon Hill (born 1960)British racing driver
Faith Hill (born 1967)American country singer
Jonah Hill (born 1983)American actor
Benny Hill (1924–1992)British comedian and actor
Graham Hill (1929–1975)British racing driver

People named Hill with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hill

Also a first name

Hill has been given to 577 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1919. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.