Hill
Hill reached its high-water mark in 1919 at number 1,624, and has been recorded 577 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 200 Hills are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hill
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 577
- Estimated living today
- 200
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 1,624th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Hills are
born that year still alive today
Of the 577 babies given the name since 1884, about 200 are alive — 34 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hills
- Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882)British philosopher
- Hill Harper (born 1966)American actor and political candidate
- Henrietta Hill Swope (1902–1980)American astronomer
- Augustus Hill Garland (1832–1899)American politician
- Alexander Hill Everett (1792–1847)American diplomat and writer
People named Hill with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hill is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Hill peaked:
Related names
Hill against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.