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Type Surname (from occupation, from location & from nickname)
Gender Masculine
Scripts הלל
Pronounced Pron. HILL-er  [key]
Other Forms Formshillier, helel, helal, halal, hillel

Meaning & History

The name Hiller has both Jewish, German and English origins and may even be related to Norse:

Native German:

1) from a masculine personal beginning with the ancient Germanic element hild ‘strife/battle’.

2) German: habitational name for someone from Hille (Westphalia).

3) Ashkenazi (Germanized Hebrew): "to flash" or "to boast" or "to praise" הָלַל (halal, halel, helel), later meaning in Germanized form: a person with fair hair or complexion. Yiddish variant: hel.

English:

1) A topographic name from Middle English hiller heller huller ‘dweller on the hill’ (compare Hilling). Where the suffix -er is added to a topographic term is mainly found in southern England especially in Hampshire Sussex and Surrey.

Norweigan, Icelandic:

1) Phoenetically similar to and possibly from the Norwegian or Icelandic "hallr", meaning, "flint."
Added 7/20/2024 by gematria
Edited 12/8/2024 by gematria