Hill in my family tree
1: English: extremely common and widely distributed topographic name for someone who lived on or by an hill, Old English hyll. The sound represented by Old English y developed in various ways in the different dialects of Middle English. Traces of these regional differences may be found in the variants, in spite of the influence of the standard English vocabulary word. 2: English: from the medieval given name Hill, a short form of Hilary (a personal name from Latin Hilarius, a derivative of hilaris cheerful, glad from Greek hilaros propitious, joyful), or of one of the Germanic compound names with the first element hild battle, strife. 3: Low German: diminutive of Hildebrand, a personal name from Germanic hild + brand battle + (flaming) sword. 4: Jewish (Ashkenazic): anglicized form of various like-sounding names.
Variants (of 1): Hell, Hull; Heller, Hiller; Hillam (from the Old English dative plural hyllum; also the name of a place in Yorkshire West Riding); Hille (from the Old English dative singular hylle); Hillman; Hills. (of 3): Hille, Hillemann, Hillmann, Hilmann.
Cognates (of 1): Dutch: Van Heuvel. Flemish: Heuvelman, Van den Heuvel, Van Hille, Van Hulle. German: Hiegel (Alsace); Hügel, Hügelmann, Hüggel, Hüggelmann; Hügler. Low German: Heuvel, Hiebel, Hiebl, Höbel, Hövel, Hübel; Hibler, Hiebler; Hübler. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Hillman (reason for adoption unknown).
Patronymics (from 3): Low German: Hillemans:, Hillen.
Hill or variants was the 29th most common name in England and Wales according to a survey taken by H.M.Treasury in 1944, with a relative frequency of 0.27%.
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