Hillman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived or worked in hilly country, from Middle English hill -H man ‘man’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɪlmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hillman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 17K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 19K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
15,738 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived or worked in hilly country, from Middle English hill -H man ‘man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hillman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 15,738 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Hillman | 432 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hillman | 174 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hillman | 131 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Hillman | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hillman | 139 |
| SE Sweden | 555 | 1 in 18K | 555 | Hillman | 44 |
| SG Singapore | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hillman | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hillman | 27 |
15,738 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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). 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)
Hillman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Hild (see Hild 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Altered spelling of North German Hillmann.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A native or inhabitant of hilly or mountainous country; a tribesman who lives in the mountains.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a different form of Hill (i)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Harry Hillmanb. 1881USAmerican athletics competitor (1881–1945)
- Sidney Hillmanb. 1887USAmerican labor leader
- James Hillmanb. 1926USAmerican psychologist (1926–2011)
- Harold Hillmanb. 1930GBBritish neuroscientist (1930-2016)
- Larry Hillmanb. 1937CACanadian ice hockey player (1937–2022)
- Chris Hillmanb. 1944USAmerican musician
- Darnell Hillmanb. 1949USAmerican basketball player
- Trey Hillmanb. 1963USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Jared Hillmanb. 1981USAmerican actor
- Nina Makinob. 2005USnot in their usual nameAmerican-Japanese singer and actress
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,321 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,416 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 555 | #1,729 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
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 Hillman mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived or worked in hilly country, from Middle English hill -H man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hillman?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪlmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hillman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Hillman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hillman.
- How common is the name Hillman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,738 people named Hillman in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hillmanThe 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, “Hillman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.