Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Hillsman

    A surname, carried by 1,070 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H425

    Hillsman: #23,675 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hillsman #23,675, 1,070 people Hillsman: #23,675 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hillsman #23,675, 1,070 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hillsman is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,070 people named Hillsman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 288,547 Americans. That is up 8.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 983.

    #23,675
    rank among US surnames
    1,070
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.9%
    change since 2000 (was #23,968)

    Who is named Hillsman

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

    59% of people named Hillsman identified as Black (not Hispanic), 36% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 59%
    • White (not Hispanic) 36%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hillsman

    Hillsman has the Soundex code H425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H425.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hillsman?
    1,070 people in the United States had the surname Hillsman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 288,547 Americans. It ranked 23,675th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hillsman?
    In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Hillsman identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 36% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hillsman getting more or less common?
    More common. 983 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,070 in 2010, up 8.9%.