Family name origins & meanings
- Southern English : topographic name for someone living by a hill. See Hill 1.
- German : metronymic from Hille, a pet form of the female personal name Hildegund (see Hilke).
- North German, Frisian, and Dutch : from a masculine personal beginning with the Germanic element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
- German : variant of Hüller (see Huller).