How common is the surname Lill?

1,174 people in the United States had the surname Lill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,986 Americans. It ranked 22,069th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lill?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lill getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,181 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,174 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Lill

A German surname, carried by 1,174 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lill is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Lill.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,174 people named Lill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,986 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,181.

#22,069

rank among US surnames

1,174

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #20,785)

Who is named Lill

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

94% of people named Lill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lill

Lill has the Soundex code L400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L400.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lill come from?: Borrowed from German Lill.
How common is the surname Lill?: 1,174 people in the United States had the surname Lill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,986 Americans. It ranked 22,069th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lill?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lill getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,181 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,174 in 2010, down 0.6%.