Hillesheim
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from the city of Hildesheim or from any of several places named Hillesheim in Hesse and the Rhineland (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/iliʃɛĩ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Hillesheim is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Hillesheim
- Portuguese:/iliʃɛĩ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- German:/ˈhɪləsˌhaɪ̯m/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from the city of Hildesheim or from any of several places named Hillesheim in Hesse and the Rhineland. The place name is probably from the genitive case of a personal name derived from a short form of the various Germanic compound names with a first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ + Old High German heim ‘homestead’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hillesheim counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | — | 701 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 45 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Hillesheim 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.
In German, Hillesheim (a town in Vulkaneifel district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu Hillesheim; -heim-Form, Hauptverbreitung Koblenz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, from the place name Hillesheim
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Eva Hillesheimb. 1951DEjudoka
- Danúbia HillesheimBRresearcher
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hillesheim mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from the city of Hildesheim or from any of several places named Hillesheim in Hesse and the Rhineland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hillesheim?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /iliʃɛĩ/; in German /ˈhɪləsˌhaɪ̯m/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hillesheim have the most bearers?
- Hillesheim is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Hillesheim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hillesheimThe 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, “Hillesheim” — ranked 5573rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.