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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Hill 1.
  • North German : from the personal name Hille, a pet form of Hildebrand.
  • Dutch : from the place name ten Hulle, from hulle ‘hill’, found in many parts of the Netherlands.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, mostly on islands, named Hille, from Old Norse hilla ‘terrace’, ‘ledge’.

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