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    The surname Hilt

    A surname, carried by 3,185 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H430

    Hilt: #10,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hilt #10,119, 3,185 people Hilt: #10,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hilt #10,119, 3,185 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hilt is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,185 people named Hilt in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,937 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,032.

    #10,119
    rank among US surnames
    3,185
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,835)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,114Burman3,18696,907
    #10,119Hilt3,18596,937
    #10,122Ludwick3,18496,968
    #10,125Bodden3,18396,998

    Who is named Hilt

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

    89% of people named Hilt identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hilt

    Hilt has the Soundex code H430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H430.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hilt?
    3,185 people in the United States had the surname Hilt in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,937 Americans. It ranked 10,119th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hilt?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Hilt identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hilt getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,032 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,185 in 2010, up 5.0%.