Surname statistics for Hills

There are approximately 15,927 people named Hills in the UK. That makes it the 627th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 252 are named Hills.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)15927627N/A252
United Kingdom (1881 census)82825100.028277
Change since 1881+7645-117-0.003-25
Other Countries
United States128672589N/A48
Australia2064779N/A126

Politics

People with the surname Hills are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Hills are:

  1. Conservative (7)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hills
John Hills
Michael Hills
Christopher Hills
Paul Hills
Andrew Hills
Richard Hills
Peter Hills
Stephen Hills
Robert Hills
Mark Hills
Anthony Hills
Gary Hills
James Hills
Graham Hills
Simon Hills
Nigel Hills
Daniel Hills
Ian Hills
Kevin Hills

Top female forenames

Christine Hills
Sarah Hills
Susan Hills
Patricia Hills
Jane Hills
Claire Hills
Jacqueline Hills
Elizabeth Hills
Karen Hills
Amanda Hills
Janet Hills
Deborah Hills
Catherine Hills
Anna Hills
Wendy Hills
Gillian Hills
Tracy Hills
Michelle Hills
Tracey Hills
Barbara Hills

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.