The surname Hilts
A surname, carried by 1,486 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex H432
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,486 people named Hilts in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,770 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,467.
#18,561
rank among US surnames
1,486
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+1.3%
change since 2000 (was #17,639)
Who is named Hilts
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Hilts identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hilts has the Soundex code H432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H432.
Questions
- How common is the surname Hilts?
- 1,486 people in the United States had the surname Hilts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,770 Americans. It ranked 18,561st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hilts?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hilts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Hilts getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,486 in 2010, up 1.3%.