Hillis

Hillis is the 5,926th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,604 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,604
Rank: 5,926th
How common: 1 in 53,300
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Variant of Hills or Hillhouse.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hillis

William Daniel Hillis (born 1956)American computer scientist
Ali Hillis (born 1978)American actress

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

Surnames like Hillis

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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.