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The hillis Surname

hillis Name Meaning and History

  1. variant of Hills.
  2. variant of Hillhouse. In the British Isles, this name is now most frequent in northern Ireland and Scotland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hillis Families in the US in 1920
Number of hillis families
 41-79
 14-40
 1-13
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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