Hills
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) a different form of Hill (i); (ii) ‘son of Hill (ii)’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hills is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.8K
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
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
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
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)
(i) a different form of Hill (i); (ii) ‘son of Hill (ii)’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hills 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 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Hills | 8 |
| US United States | 13,829 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Hills | 405 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | listed | Hills | 227 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Hills | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Hills | 171 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hills | 128 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hills | 86 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)
Hills 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 English, patr. from Hill 2. Vars.: Hillis (N Ireland). (Of 2 only): Hilson. Hinder i. German: topographic name for someone who lived at the back of a village or beyond the main settlement, from MHG hinder behind, beyond (OHG hintaro] mod. Ger. hinter); cf. Low Ger. Achtermann. 2. English: prob¬ ably a nickname from ME hinder crafty, treacherous, anx¬ ious, fretful (of uncertain origin).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, 2. patr. from Hill 2. Vars.: Hillis (N Ireland). (Of 2 only): Hilson.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Latvian, grieķu mitoloģijā - Hērakla un Dējaneiras (varianti: lībiešu valdnieka meitas Omfales vai Nimfas Melisas) dēls, kurš kļuva par Hērakleidu (daudzo Hērakla pēcteču) vadoni, kad viņi iebruka Peloponēsā, lai atgūtu tēva valsti, gāja bojā divkaujā ar arkādiešu valdnieku
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Laura Coombs Hillsb. 1859USAmerican painter (1859–1952)
- Margaret Hillsb. 1882GBpolitician, suffragist
- Hod Fordb. 1897USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1897-1977)
- Carla Anderson Hillsb. 1934USAmerican lawyer and Secretary of Housing
- Ben Hillsb. 1942GBAustralian journalist
- Jack G. Hillsb. 1943USAmerican astronomer
- Beverly Hillsb. 1966GBBritish actress
- Adam Hillsb. 1970AUAustralian comedian
- Danjab. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer and songwriter from Virginia
- Beverly Hillsb. 1986USAmerican pornographic 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,634 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,589 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hills mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) a different form of Hill (i); (ii) ‘son of Hill (ii)’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hills have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Hills in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hills.
- How common is the name Hills?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,829 people named Hills in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hillsThe 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, “Hills”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.