Hillard

At the 2020 census, 5,690 Americans bore the surname Hillard — 5,852nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,690
Rank: 5,852nd
How common: 1 in 52,500
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.0%
Black, not Hispanic 26.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Hillard

Also a first name

Hillard has been given to 2,356 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1926. 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.