Surname Origin

The Hill Surname


Meaning
dweller by a hill
Type
Locational
Root
Old English hyll
Chiefly
Throughout England

A topographic name for someone who lived on or beside a hill — the plainest kind of surname there is, and independently invented in hundreds of places at once.

Names like this have no single family origin. Two Hills are unlikely to be related.

Bestow the name a title it never had

An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Hill name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.

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