Hillhouse Family History
Hillhouse Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English or early modern English hill + house ‘house on the hill’. In Yorkshire the surname may arise from the name of a farm in Fartown Pudsey (Yorkshire). Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire) and English: habitational name from any of several minor places in Ayrshire and elsewhere in Scotland probably named with Middle English Older Scots hill + house ‘house on the hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022