Hill Family History
- Hill Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: extremely common and widely distributed topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, Middle English hill (Old English hyll). English: from the medieval personal name Hill, a short form of Hilary (see Hillary) or of a Germanic (male or female) compound name with the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’. German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing Germanic hild as the first element. Jewish (American): Anglicized form of various Jewish names of similar sound or meaning. English translation of Finnish Mäki (‘hill’), or of any of various other names formed with this element, such as Mäkinen, Heinämaki, Kivimäki.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,722,528 Historical Documents with Hill on Ancestry
- 6,080,154 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,665,409 Census and Voter Lists
- 643,225 Military Records
- 390,510 Immigration Records
- 5,943,230 Member Trees
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Number of Hill families
 5,073 - 10,144  1,692 - 5,072 |
 1 - 1,691  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hill families
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768 - 1,534 257 - 767 |
1 - 256 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hill census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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