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    The surname Hilley

    A surname, carried by 1,787 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H400

    Hilley: #16,171 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hilley #16,171, 1,787 people Hilley: #16,171 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hilley #16,171, 1,787 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hilley is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,787 people named Hilley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,773 Americans. That is down 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,902.

    #16,171
    rank among US surnames
    1,787
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6%
    change since 2000 (was #14,413)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,166Hayek1,788172,676
    #16,171Macario1,787172,773
    #16,179Rickards1,786172,870

    Who is named Hilley

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

    91% of people named Hilley identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hilley

    Hilley has the Soundex code H400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hilley?
    1,787 people in the United States had the surname Hilley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,773 Americans. It ranked 16,171st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hilley?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Hilley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hilley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,902 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,787 in 2010, down 6.0%.