Given name & surname
Hill
“from the small hill”
Hill is a variant of Hillock. One English interpretation is “from the small hill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hill is a variant of Hillock. One English interpretation is “from the small hill.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hill is a variant of Hillock. An origin associated with Hillock is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hill through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 577
- 577 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,167 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,167 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 632 as a first name in 2020; 419,076 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hill
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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