Hiller

At the 2020 census, 8,150 Americans bore the surname Hiller — 4,210th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,150
Rank: 4,210th
How common: 1 in 36,700
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

From given to people who lived by a hill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hiller described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hiller

Wendy Hiller (1912–2003)English film and stage actress
Arthur Hiller (1923–2016)Canadian-American director
Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)German composer and conductor
Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804)German composer and conductor
Jonas Hiller (born 1982)Swiss ice hockey goaltender
Kurt Hiller (1885–1972)German essayist and activist
István Hiller (born 1964)Hungarian historian, politician (born: 1964)
Susan Hiller (1942–2019)American/British conceptual artist

People named Hiller with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hiller

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.