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    The surname Hillhouse

    An English place surname, carried by 2,012 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H420

    Hillhouse: #14,761 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hillhouse #14,761, 2,012 people Hillhouse: #14,761 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hillhouse #14,761, 2,012 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hillhouse is more common than 90.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hyll (“hill”) + hūs (“house”).

    Hillhouse 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 2,012 people named Hillhouse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 153,452 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,973.

    #14,761
    rank among US surnames
    2,012
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #14,022)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,755Dittrich2,013153,376
    #14,761Natarajan2,012153,452
    #14,768Ban2,011153,528

    Who is named Hillhouse

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

    91% of people named Hillhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Hillhouses

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • James Hillhouse
      American lawyer, real estate developer and politician (1754-1832)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Hillhouse

    Hillhouse has the Soundex code H420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H420.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hillhouse come from?
    From Old English hyll (“hill”) + hūs (“house”).
    How common is the surname Hillhouse?
    2,012 people in the United States had the surname Hillhouse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 153,452 Americans. It ranked 14,761st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hillhouse?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Hillhouse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Hillhouse?
    James Hillhouse, American lawyer, real estate developer and politician (1754-1832).
    Where is the surname Hillhouse most common?
    Wikidata records people named Hillhouse in the United States.
    What type of surname is Hillhouse?
    Hillhouse is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hillhouse getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,973 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,012 in 2010, up 2.0%.
    What are other spellings of Hillhouse?
    Hillis.