How common is the surname Hilburn?

4,390 people in the United States had the surname Hilburn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,329 Americans. It ranked 7,568th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hilburn?

In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hilburn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hilburn getting more or less common?

More common. 4,331 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,390 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Hilburn

An English place surname, carried by 4,390 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hilburn is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a now lost place, from Old English hyll (“hill”) + burne (“brook, stream”).

Hilburn is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,390 people named Hilburn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,329 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,331.

#7,568

rank among US surnames

4,390

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,114)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,559	Knepp	4,398	70,201
#7,560	Eiler	4,397	70,217
#7,561	Otten	4,396	70,233
#7,562	Hertel	4,395	70,249
#7,563	Tessier	4,394	70,265
#7,564	Arbuckle	4,393	70,281
#7,565	Towers	4,392	70,297

Who is named Hilburn

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

84% of people named Hilburn identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hilbun

Surnames that sound like Hilburn

Hilburn has the Soundex code H416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H416.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hilburn come from?: Habitational surname from a now lost place, from Old English hyll (“hill”) + burne (“brook, stream”).
How common is the surname Hilburn?: 4,390 people in the United States had the surname Hilburn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,329 Americans. It ranked 7,568th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hilburn?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hilburn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Hilburn?: Hilburn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hilburn getting more or less common?: More common. 4,331 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,390 in 2010, up 1.4%.
What are other spellings of Hilburn?: Hilbun.