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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived or worked in hilly country, from Middle English hill + man ‘man’.
  • English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Hild (see Hild 2).
  • Altered spelling of North German Hillmann.

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