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    The surname Hillock

    An English place surname, carried by 621 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H420

    Hillock: #36,099 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hillock #36,099, 621 people Hillock: #36,099 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hillock #36,099, 621 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hillock is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English hillok (“hillock”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near or on a hillock.

    Hillock 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 621 people named Hillock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 497,175 Americans. That is down 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 793.

    #36,099
    rank among US surnames
    621
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -21.7%
    change since 2000 (was #28,353)

    Who is named Hillock

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

    95% of people named Hillock identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hillock

    Hillock 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 Hillock come from?
    From Middle English hillok (“hillock”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near or on a hillock.
    How common is the surname Hillock?
    621 people in the United States had the surname Hillock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 497,175 Americans. It ranked 36,099th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hillock?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hillock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Hillock?
    Hillock is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hillock getting more or less common?
    Less common. 793 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 621 in 2010, down 22%.