The surname Hillyard
A surname, carried by 2,225 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H463
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,225 people named Hillyard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,762 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,062.
#13,616
rank among US surnames
2,225
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+7.9%
change since 2000 (was #13,513)
Who is named Hillyard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Hillyard identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hillyard has the Soundex code H463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H463.
Questions
- How common is the surname Hillyard?
- 2,225 people in the United States had the surname Hillyard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,762 Americans. It ranked 13,616th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hillyard?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Hillyard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Hillyard getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,062 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,225 in 2010, up 7.9%.