Hiller
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: dweller on the hill; first attested Peter Hiller 1432 FrY
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɪlɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hiller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 37K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dweller on the hill; first attested Peter Hiller 1432 FrY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hiller is read(measured from records)
Hiller is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
dweller on the hill; first attested Peter Hiller 1432 FrY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
a different form of Hill (i)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German18%
patronymisch oder metronymisch zu Kurzformen wie Hille; im ganzen Deutschland verstreut, stark in Württemberg und Sachsen (5446). Konsonantenvariation: ld > ll mit -er.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hiller counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Hiller | 5 |
| US United States | 10,546 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Hiller | 355 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Hiller | 104 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Hiller | 93 |
| EG Egypt | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Hiller | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 477 | 1 in 21K | 477 | Hiller | 32 |
| NO Norway | 326 | 1 in 17K | 326 | — | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 283 | 1 in 30K | 283 | Hiller | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hiller is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a masculine personal beginning with the Germanic element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
2. German: metronymic from Hille, a pet form of the female personal name Hildegund (see Hilke).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
topographic name for someone living by a hill. See Hill
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Adam Hillerb. 1728DEGerman composer and conductor (1728–1804)
- Ferdinand Hillerb. 1811DEGerman composer and conductor (1811–1885)
- Alois Hitler, Jr.b. 1882ATnot in their usual namehalf-brother of Adolf Hitler
- Kurt Hillerb. 1885DEGerman essayist and activist (1885–1972)
- Wendy Hillerb. 1912GBEnglish film and stage actress (1912-2003)
- Arthur Hillerb. 1923CACanadian-American director (1923-2016)
- Lejaren Hillerb. 1924USAmerican composer, music theorist and chemist
- Susan Hillerb. 1940USAmerican/British conceptual artist
- Colette HillerUSAmerican actress
- Jeff HillerUSAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,210 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 477 | #1,955 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 326 | #4,616 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 283 | #4,612 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hiller mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller on the hill; first attested Peter Hiller 1432 FrY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Hiller?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪlɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hiller have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Hiller in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hiller.
- Where is Hiller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hiller is densest in Norway — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hiller?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,546 people named Hiller in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hillerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hiller”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.