The surname Hilling
An English place surname, carried by 608 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H452
Origin
English origin
Topographic surname for a person living on a hill, from an unattested Old English word *hylling (“hill-dweller”).
Hilling 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 608 people named Hilling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. That is down 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 634.
Who is named Hilling
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Hilling identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Hillin
Hilling has the Soundex code H452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H452.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hilling come from?
- Topographic surname for a person living on a hill, from an unattested Old English word *hylling (“hill-dweller”).
- How common is the surname Hilling?
- 608 people in the United States had the surname Hilling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 507,805 Americans. It ranked 36,736th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hilling?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hilling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Hilling?
- Hilling is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hilling getting more or less common?
- Less common. 634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 608 in 2010, down 4.1%.
- What are other spellings of Hilling?
- Hillin.