Hilton
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hilton is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: person from Hilton, the name of various English places, mainly ‘farmstead by a hill’ or ‘farmstead on a slope’.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 481 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Hilton, the name of various English places, mainly ‘farmstead by a hill’ or ‘farmstead on a slope’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilton 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 29K | Hilton | 481 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Hilton | 175 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Hilton | 241 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Hilton | 139 |
| IN India | — | 18 | Hilton | 34 |
| BR Brazil | — | 13K | Hilton | 130 |
| NO Norway | — | 302 | — | 29 |
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; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Hilton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, usually from Hilton in Derbyshire, Huntingdonshire, Staffordshire, or North Riding of Yorkshire, or from Hilltown, Devon; first attested Roger de Hiltun 1132 Riev
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, probably a reduced form of Hinchcliffe .
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
In English, Conrad, US hotelier; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Old English; from the farm on the hill.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Irish, Now fairly numerous in Ulster and in Dublin, most families of this English toponymic name in Ireland were established here at the time of the Plantation of Ulster ( c. 1609); but it is on record in Dublin in the previous century
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Conrad Hiltonb. 1887USAmerican hotelier and member of the Hilton family
- James Hiltonb. 1900GBBritish novelist and screenwriter (1900–1954)
- Barron Hiltonb. 1927USAmerican hotelier (1927-2019)
- George Hiltonb. 1934ITItalian film actor (1934–2019)
- Hilton McRaeb. 1949GBBritish actor
- Richard Hiltonb. 1955USAmerican businessman and member of the family Hilton
- Kathy Hiltonb. 1959USAmerican actress and television personality (born 1959)
- Paris Hiltonb. 1981USAmerican media personality (born 1981)
- Nicky Hiltonb. 1983USAmerican socialite (born 1983)
- Tyler Hiltonb. 1983USAmerican singer-songwriter and actor (born 1983)
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 70 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 28K | #1,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,256 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 302 | #5,070 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #85,029 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Hilton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Hilton, the name of various English places, mainly ‘farmstead by a hill’ or ‘farmstead on a slope’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hilton have the most bearers?
- Hilton is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled hilton.
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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, “Hilton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.