Hillesheim Family History
Hillesheim Name Meaning
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Hildesheim or from any of several places called Hillesheim in Hesse and the Rhineland. The placename is probably from the genitive case of a personal name derived from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element hild ‘strife battle’ + Old High German heim ‘homestead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022