The surname Hilyard
A surname, carried by 1,185 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 1,185 people named Hilyard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 260,545 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,044.
#21,912
rank among US surnames
1,185
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+13.5%
change since 2000 (was #22,891)
Who is named Hilyard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Hilyard identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hilyard 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 Hilyard?
- 1,185 people in the United States had the surname Hilyard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 260,545 Americans. It ranked 21,912th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hilyard?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Hilyard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Hilyard getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,185 in 2010, up 14%.