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    The surname Hillyer

    A surname, carried by 2,676 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex H460

    Hillyer: #11,714 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hillyer #11,714, 2,676 people Hillyer: #11,714 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hillyer #11,714, 2,676 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hillyer is more common than 92.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,676 people named Hillyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,376 Americans. That is up 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,456.

    #11,714
    rank among US surnames
    2,676
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9%
    change since 2000 (was #11,701)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,709Longenecker2,677115,333
    #11,714Dismuke2,676115,376
    #11,716Ikeda2,675115,419
    #11,719Blazek2,674115,462
    #11,722Pickel2,673115,505

    Who is named Hillyer

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

    90% of people named Hillyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hillyer

    Hillyer has the Soundex code H460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H460.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hillyer?
    2,676 people in the United States had the surname Hillyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,376 Americans. It ranked 11,714th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hillyer?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Hillyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hillyer getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,676 in 2010, up 9.0%.