Hilliard

At the 2020 census, 19,517 Americans bore the surname Hilliard — 1,799th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,517
Rank: 1,799th
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.3%
Black, not Hispanic 29.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619)British artist
Darrun Hilliard (born 1993)American basketball player
Olive Mary Hilliard (1925–2022)South African botanist

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

Surnames like Hilliard

Also a first name

Hilliard has been given to 1,859 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. 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.