Submitted Surnames with "hill" in Description

Aasum Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse aas "hill" and um "around".

Aird Scottish Gaelic
Derived from a variation of the place name "Aird". The Gaelic term "Aird" would mean "high ground" or "hill" in English.

Akahori Japanese
Aka means "red" and hori means "mound, hill."

Akioka Japanese
Aki means "autumn" and oka means "hill".

Alamäe Estonian
Alamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "area/region hill/mountain".

Allikmäe Estonian
Allikmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "wellspring hill".

Almodovar Portuguese (Anglicized), Spanish (Anglicized)
Habitational name from Almodóvar (Almodóvar del Campo, Almodóvar del Pinar or Almodóvar del Río) in Spain, or from Almodôvar, Portugal... [more]

Altmäe Estonian
Altmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "from below hill".

Alumäe Estonian
Alumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "base/foundation hill/mountain".

Amsdon English (Modern)
Unknown. Possibly a spelling variant of Amsden. Ancestry.com suggests probably a habitational name, from a reduced form of the Oxfordshire place name Ambrosden, which is composed of an Old English personal name Ambre + Old English dun ‘hill’... [more]

Annan Scottish
'The earliest reference of Annan used as a surname is found in the 13th century Ragman Rolls during which Scots pledged homage to nobles. It is likely that the inhabitants of Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Annandale, River Annan, Annanhead Hill, and Annan Castle adopted Annan as their surname.' (wikipedia)

Aosaka Japanese
Ao means "green, blue" and saka means "slope, hill".

Araoka Japanese (Rare)
Ara (荒) means "rough", oka (岡) means "hill", therefore, Araoka means rough hill

Arioka Japanese
From Japanese 有 (ari) meaning "have, possess" and 岡 (oka) meaning "ridge, hill".

Arisaka Japanese
Ari means "have, possess, exist" and saka means "hill, slope".

Arredondo Spanish
habitational name from a place in Cantabria named Arredondo possibly from redondo 'round' because of the roundish shape of the hill on which it stands.

Arumäe Estonian
Arumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grassland hill/mountain".

Asaoka Japanese
From Japanese 浅 (asa) meaning "shallow" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Asnicar Italian
From Cimbrian haazo "hare" and ékke "hill, rise".

Awaoka Japanese
Awa means "millet" and oka means "mound, hill".

Awsumb Norwegian
Norwegian habitation surname. Åsum/Aasum/Aasumb is a common place name in Scandinavia, generally referring to an ancient farm or homestead. Derived from Old Norse aas ‘hill’ + um ‘around’. Norwegian emigrants from the Åsum farm in the traditional district of Vinger (Hedmark, Norway) adopted the Anglicized spelling ‘Awsumb’ after arriving in North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Babaoka Japanese
Baba means "riding ground" and oka means "hill".

Backlund Swedish
Combination of Swedish backe "hill, slope" and Lund "grove".

Backman English, Swedish, German
Combination of Old English bakke "spine, back" and man "man". In Swedish, the first element is more likely to be derived from Swedish backe "hill", and in German the first element can be derived from German backen "to bake"... [more]

Backström Swedish
Combination of Swedish backe "slope, hill" and ström "stream".

Bacolod Filipino, Hiligaynon, Cebuano
Derived from Hiligaynon bakolod meaning "hill, mound, rise". This is also the name of a city in the Negros Occidental province in the Philippines.

Bankhead Scottish, Northern Irish
Topographic name for someone who lived at the top or end of a bank or hill, derived from Middle English bank meaning "bank" and hed meaning "head". There are several minor places in Scotland so called, but the most likely source of the surname is one on the border between the parishes of Kilmarnock and Dreghorn in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Bankston English
Derived from the old English world "Banke" usually given to a family who lived near a hill or a slope.

Barham English
English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. Most, for example those in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, are named with Old English beorg ‘hill’ + ham ‘homestead’. The one in Kent, however, is from an unattested Old English byname Biora, Beora (a derivative of bera ‘bear’) + ham.

Barr Scottish, Northern Irish
Habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr "height, hill" or a British cognate of this.

Bayır Turkish
Means "slope, incline, hill" in Turkish.

Beeden English (British)
Probably means "from Beeden", a village near Newbury in Berkshire. Ultimately coming from either Old English byden, meaning "shallow valley", or from the pre 7th century personal name Bucge with the suffix dun, meaning "hill of Bucge".

Belmont English
English surname of Norman origin, a variant of the surname Beaumont, which was derived from place names meaning "lovely hill" in Old French (from beu, bel "fair, lovely" and mont "hill").

Bergdahl Swedish
Combination of Swedish berg "mountain, hill" and dal "valley".

Berghorst German
Topographical name for someone who lived by a wilderness area on a mountain, from Berg 'mountain', 'hill' + Horst 'wilderness' (see Horst).

Berglind Swedish
Combination of Swedish berg "mountain, hill" and lind "linden tree".

Bergmark Swedish
Combination of Swedish berg "mountain, hill" and mark "land, ground, field".

Bergschneider German
topographic name for someone living by a mountain trail (as in cut into the hillside) from Berg "mountain hill" and Schneit "trail path running on a border" (Old High German sneita).

Bergsma Dutch, West Frisian
From berg "mountain, hill".

Bernasconi Italian
The surname of BERNASCONI is of Italian origin, a locational name meaning the dweller on or near a small hill. The names of habitation are derived from pre-existing names denoting towns, villages, farmsteads or other named habitations... [more]

Biesheuvel Dutch
From Biesheuvel, the name of a small village in the north of the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. It is derived from Dutch bies meaning "bulrush, club rush" (a grasslike plant that grows in wetlands and damp locations) and heuvel meaning "hill"... [more]

Billingsly English
Habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Billingsley, from Old English Billingesleah, probably 'clearing (Old English leah) near a sword-shaped hill'

Birchall English
Probably a habitational name from Birchill in Derbyshire or Birchills in Staffordshire, both named in Old English with birce "birch" + hyll "hill".

Blagden Anglo-Saxon
Blagden is a locational surname deriving from any one of the places called Blackden or Blagdon, or Blagden farm in Hempstead, Essex. Blackden in Cheshire, Blagden in Essex and Blagdon in Northumberland share the same meaning and derivation, which is "the dark or black valley", derived from the Old English pre 7th Century "blaec", black, with "denu", valley, while the places called Blagdon in Devon, Dorset and Somerset, recorded as Blakedone in 1242, Blakeson in 1234, and Blachedone in the Domesday Book of 1086 respectively mean "the black hill", derived from the Old English "blaec", black, and "dun", down, hill, mountain... [more]

Blankenbühler German
Possibly means "from the bare hill", from blanken "bare, bright" and bühl "hill".

Bleiberg Jewish, German
Means "lead hill" in German. Can be a toponymic name, likely from a place involved in lead mining, or an ornamental name.

Blennerhassett English
The Blennerhassett surname comes from someone having lived in Cumberland, on the Borderlands between Scotland and England. ... [more]

Blink Dutch
Topographic name from blink "bare hill, white dune".

Blumenberg Jewish
Ornamental name composed of German Blume "flower" and Berg "mountain, hill".

Boutella Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)
Means "father of the mountain" or "father of the hill", from Arabic أَبُو (ʾabū) meaning "father (of)" and تَلّ (tall) meaning "hill, foothill". Two notable bearers include father and daughter Safy (1950-) and Sofia (1982-) Boutella, an Algerian singer and an Algerian-French actress, respectively.

Bowden English
Habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon, most of them in England. From Old English boga "bow" and dun "hill", or from Old English personal names Buga or Bucge combined with dun.... [more]

Brailey English
Habitational name for a person from Brayley Barton in Devon, which is derived from the name of the Bray river (a back formation from High Bray which is from Celtic bre meaning "hill" or Old English brǣg "brow") combined with Old English leah "woodland, clearing".

Branting Swedish
A combination of Swedish brant "steep hill" and the suffix -ing. A famous bearer was Hjalmar Branting (1860–1925), Prime Minister of Sweden in the 1920s.

Bregar Slovene, Croatian
Derived from breg meaning ''hill''.

Brekke Norwegian
Derived from Old Norse brekka meaning "hill, slope".

Brian Irish, English, French
1) Variant spelling of Bryan. ... [more]

Brinck German
Means "home on or near a hill".... [more]

Brion French
Refers to any of several places of the same name. Derived from Gaulish briga "height, hill" and the suffix -one.

Bryn Welsh
Means hill in welsh

Bühler German
From the German word "bühl", meaning hill.

Bukit Indonesian
Means "hill" in Indonesian.

Burbage English
English: habitational name from places in Wiltshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire, so named with Old English burh ‘fort’ + bæc ‘hill’, ‘ridge’ (dative bece).

Burchell English
An English surname derived from the village of Birkehill (also known as Biekel or Birtle). It means "birch hill".

Burdon English
From 'bur' meaning "fort" and 'don' meaning "hill"

Burnell Anglo-Saxon, Medieval English
A name for a person with a brown complexion or dark brown hair. From the Old English burnel via the French brunel a diminutive of the French brun, which means "brown". The suffix el-- a short form of "little" was added to brun to make Brunel... [more]

Burr English, Scottish, German
Nickname for a person who is difficult to shake off, derived from Middle English burr meaning "bur" (a seedhead that sticks to clothing). It could also be a derivation from Old English bur meaning "small dwelling, building", or a German topographic name derived from burre meaning "mound, hill"... [more]

Burroughs English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English "beorg", a cognate of Old High German berg "hill", ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke)... [more]

Burrows English
Variant of Burroughs. A name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, also may be a further derivation from Old English bur "bower" and hus "house".

Burtsell English (American)
Habitational name from Burshill in East Yorkshire, so named with Old English bryst ‘landslip’, ‘rough ground’ + hyll ‘hill’.

Carrow English
English: habitational name from either of two places: Carrow in Norfolk or Carraw in Northumberland. The first is thought to be named from Old English carr ‘rock’ (a Celtic loan word) + hoh ‘spur of a hill’, while the last may be named either from an Old British plural of carr, or from carr + Old English raw ‘row’... [more]

Chisaka Japanese
Chi means "thousand" and saka means "slope, hill".

Churchyard English
It comes from when the family lived in or near the precincts of a church. Churchyard belongs to the large class of Anglo-Saxon topographic surnames, which were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as "a hill", "stream", "church", or "type of tree".

Clairmont English
Means "bright hill."

Claremont French
Means "clear hill" in French, from the Latin clarus "clear" and French mont "mountain", A cognate of Clairmont.

Clopton English
Habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, Suffolk, and Warwickshire, named Clopton from Old English clopp(a) meaning "rock", "hill" + tūn meaning "settlement".

Cloud English
Topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop or hill, from Old English clud "rock" (only later used to denote vapor formations in the sky).

Coggill English
Recorded in several forms as shown below, this is a surname of two possible nationalities and origins. Firstly it may be of Scottish locational origins, from the lands of Cogle in the parish of Watten, in Caithness, or secondly English and also locational from a place called Cogges Hill in the county of Oxfordshire... [more]

Coll Catalan
Topographic name from Catalan coll meaning "hill, mountain pass", ultimately from Latin collum.

Collado Spanish
Referred to someone who lived on a hill.

Coppenhaver German
Americanized spelling, probably originally spelled Kopenhaver or Koppenhaver. Means "owner of a hill".

Corongiu Italian
Possibly from Sardinian corongiu "rocky hill, boulder, large mass", denoting someone who lived near such a landmark, or perhaps a nickname based on the bearer's physical appearance.

Crete French
French (adjectival form Crété ‘crested’): nickname for an arrogant individual, from Old French creste ‘crest (of a hill)’ (Late Latin crista), used with reference to the comb of a rooster... [more]

Cugno Italian
From Sicilian cugnu "wedge", indicating someone who lived on a hill or other topographical "wedge", someone whose occupation involved using an axe, or a person who was considered to be hard or angular in personality or appearance.

Dalziel Scottish
Means "person from Dalyell", in the Clyde valley (probably "white field"). The name is standardly pronounced "dee-el". A fictional bearer is Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, one half of the detective team of 'Dalziel and Pascoe' in the novels (1970-2009) of Reginald Hill.

Danuser Romansh
Derived from the place name Danusa, an old hill-top settlement on the Calanda mountain... [more]

Dauterive French
Originally denoted a person hailing from any of the various places in France called Hauterive. This surname is no longer found in France. A famous fictional bearer is the character Bill Dauterive from the American animated series King of the Hill, starting 1997.

De Clermont French
Means "of the bright hill" from the French de meaning "of" and clair, cler 'bright', 'clear' + mont 'hill'

Donham Scottish
A surname meaning "House on the Hill" .

Donk Dutch
Means "sandy hill" in Dutch, specifically referring to a hill above a marsh or silty area. Element found in several place names.

Doss German, German (Austrian), German (Swiss)
German: Habitational name for someone from Dosse in Altmark. Variant of Dose ... [more]

Doward English, Welsh
Indicated that the bearer lived by two hills, from Old Welsh dou "two" and garth "hill"

Down English
Derived from Old English dun meaning "down, low hill".

Downs English
This surname is derived from the Old English element dun meaning "hill, mountain, moor." This denotes someone who lives in a down (in other words, a ridge of chalk hills or elevated rolling grassland).

Dunaway English
Originally indicated someone who came from the village and civil parish of Dunwich in Suffolk, England, derived from Old English dun meaning "hill" (or possibly dune meaning "valley") and weg meaning "way"... [more]

Dundas Scottish, Northern Irish
Scottish and northern Irish (Counties Leitrim and Fermanagh): habitational name from Dundas, a place near Edinburgh, Scotland, which is named from Gaelic dùn ‘hill’ + deas ‘south’.

Dunmore English, Scottish
Habitational name from Dunmore Farm in Oxfordshire or from any of many places in Scotland named in Gaelic as Dún Môr 'great hill'.

Dunstan English
Either from the given name Dunstan or habitational name from Dunston (Derbyshire Lincolnshire Norfolk) from the Old English personal name Dunn and tun "settlement"... [more]

Durham English
Denotes a person from either the town of Durham, or elsewhere in County Durham, in England. Durham is derived from the Old English element dun, meaning "hill," and the Old Norse holmr, meaning "island."

Dutton English
habitational name from any of the places called Dutton, especially those in Cheshire and Lancashire. The first of these is named from Old English dun ‘hill’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the second is from Old English personal name Dudd + Old English tun.

Eelmäe Estonian
Eelmäe is an Estonians surname meaning "fore hill".

Effenberg German
Possibly denoted a person coming from a place of this name in Germany, or for someone who lived on or near a mountain or hill covered with elm trees, derived from German effe meaning "elm" and berg meaning "mountain, hill"... [more]

Eichelberg German
Habitational name from any of various places, notably one southeast of Heidelberg, named from Middle High German eichel meaning "acorn" + berc meaning "mountain", "hill", or topographic name for someone who lived on an oak-covered hill.

Eisenberg German, Jewish
Means "iron hill" from German isen meaning "iron" and berg meaning "hill".

Eldon English
Habitation name from the Old English personal name Ella- and -don from dun meaning "hill."

Elkington English
According to Wikipedia Elkington is a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire in England. The villages name means "Elta's hill" or perhaps, less likely, "swan hill".... [more]

Embry English
Variant of Emery, or a name for someone from Emborough or any of the places called Hembry.... [more]

Eomäe Estonian
Eomäe is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "eose-" meaning "spore" or "eospea" meaning "cone" and "mäe" meaning "hill/mountain"; "cone hill".

Esaka Japanese
E means "river, inlet" and saka means "slope, hill".

Estadella Catalan
This indicates familial origin within the vicinity of the eponymous hill in the municipality of Isona i Conca Dellà.

Etxegarai Basque
It literally means "hill house".

Falces Spanish (Philippines)
Falces is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. In Basque the town is called Faltzes. It has a population of around 2500 inhabitants. It is well known for the famous "encierro del pilon", which is a running of the bulls made even more dangerous due to it being run down a narrow road of a steep hill... [more]

Falkenberg German, Danish, Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare)
Habitational name from any of several places named from Old High German falk "falcon" and berg "mountain, hill".

Farlow English
Habitational name from a place in Shropshire so named from Old English fearn "fern" and hlaw "hill tumulus".

Feldstein German, Jewish
Ornamental name meaning "field stone" in German. A famous bearer is American actor and filmmaker Jonah Hill (1983-), born Jonah Hill Feldstein. Another famous bearer is Hill's sister, actress Beanie Feldstein (1993-).

Foothill Indigenous American
Combination of "foot" and "hill".

Forsythe Scottish, Northern Irish
This surname has two possible origins. The more accepted explanation is that it comes from the Gaelic given name Fearsithe, which means "man of peace" from the elements fear "man" and sithe "peace"... [more]

Frankenberg German, Jewish
habitational name from a place in northern Hesse named as "fort (Old High German burg) of the Franks". From German franken and berg "mountain hill mountain"... [more]

Freiburg German
Derives from the German words, frei, which means free, and berg, which means hill, and is the name of a city in Germany.

Friedberg German, Jewish
Combination of either German vride "security, protection" or Friede "peace", with berg "hill, mountain". The name is most often locational, but may in some cases be ornamental.

Frostenden Medieval English
"White hill" in Old English. Parish in Suffolk; later shortended to Frost.

Fukuoka Japanese
From Japanese 福 (fuku) meaning "happiness, good fortune, blessing" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Fuss Medieval Low German
German from Middle High German fus ‘foot’, hence most probably a nickname for someone with some peculiarity or deformity of the foot, but perhaps also a topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

Gable English
Northern English: of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with Old Norse gafl ‘gable’, which was applied to a triangular-shaped hill. The mountain called Great Gable in Cumbria is named in this way.... [more]

Gadbury English
Habitational name from Cadborough, alias Gateborough, in Rye, Sussex, probably so named from Old English gāt meaning "goat" + beorg meaning "hill".

Gaddam Telugu
This surname means "on the hill" It is derived from the Telugu words "gadda (గడ్డ)" which means hill and "meeda (మీద)/meedi (మీది)" which means on. The two words were put together and shortened to Gaddam.

Gaddamu Telugu
Variant of Gaddam. This surname means "on the hill" It is derived from the Telugu words "gadda (గడ్డ)" which means hill and "meeda (మీద)/meedi (మీది)" which means on. The two words were put together and shortened to Gaddamu.

Getty Irish
Meaning: Hill, valley.... [more]

Godil English
English: habitational name for someone from Gadshill in Kent, either of two places called Godshill in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, or Godsell Farm in Wiltshire, which were all originally named Godeshyll ‘God's hill’.

Goldenberg Jewish
Ornamental name from a compound of German golden literally meaning "golden" and berg meaning "mountain, hill".

Goldwater German (Anglicized), Jewish (Anglicized)
This name is an Anglicized form of the German or Ashkenazic ornamental surname 'Goldwasser', or 'Goldvasser'. The name derives from the German or Yiddish gold', gold, with 'wasser', water, and is one of the very many such compound ornamental names formed with 'gold', such as 'Goldbaum', golden tree, 'Goldbert', golden hill, 'Goldkind', golden child, 'Goldrosen', golden roses, and 'Goldstern', golden star.

Góra Polish
A Polish and Jewish name that means; ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hillside or in a mountainous district, or perhaps a nickname for a large person

Grabiński Polish
Habitational name for someone from a settlement named Grabienice, Grabin, Grabina, Grabiny, etc.; ultimately from grab meaning "hornbeam" or, in the case of Grabienice, possibly from gręba meaning "hill".

Graybill English (American)
Anglicized form of Swiss German Krähenbühl, meaning "crow hill".

Greenall English
From Lincolnshire in England, meaning "green hill".

Greenhill English
The name is derived from a geographic locality, "at the green hill", or rather, more specifically of "Greenhill". The surname could also derive from the liberty on the wapentake of Corringham in Lincolnshire, or a hamlet in the parish of Harrow in Middlesex... [more]

Greenlaw English
From one of two placenames, located near the Anglo-Scottish border. Named with Old English grēne, 'green' and halw, 'hill, mound'.

Guttenberg German, Jewish
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bavaria, called Guttenberg, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Old High German guot ‘good’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’... [more]

Guyton English
Means "hill of Gaega".

Haavamäe Estonian
Haavamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "aspen hill".

Haddon English
Derived from the Old English word had meaning "heathland" and the Old English suffix -don meaning "hill"; hence, the "heathland hill" or the "heather-covered hill".... [more]

Haghighi Persian
Means “high” or “elevated” in Persian. It is believed to be a nickname or occupational surname for someone who lived or worked in a high or elevated location, such as a mountain or hill. It may also be a surname that refers to a person’s high social status or standing within their community.

Hallikmäe Estonian
Hallikmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "grayish hill/mountain".

Halton English
habitational name from any of several places called Halton in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire... [more]

Hanaoka Japanese
From Japanese 花 (hana) or 華 (hana) both meaning "flower" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Harnden English
From an English village Harrowden in Bedfordshire. This place name literally means "hill of the heathen shrines or temples," from the Old English words hearg and dun.

Hartnell English
From a location in Marwood, Devon, derived from Old English heort "stag" + cnoll "hill".

Hartshorn English
habitational name from Hartshorne (Derbyshire) from Old English heorot "hart stag" (genitive heorotes) and horn "horn" perhaps in reference to the nearby hill (known as Hart Hill) and its supposed resemblance to a hart's horn... [more]

Haruyama Japanese
From Japanese 春 (haru) meaning "spring" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Hashioka Japanese
From Japanese 橋 (hashi) meaning "bridge" and 岡 (oka) meaning "ridge, hill".

Haugan Norwegian
Originates from a Farm name. Haugan comes from the Old Norse word haugr which can be translatd to "hill" or "mound".

Hauge Norwegian
From any of the numerous farmsteads named Hauge in Norway, derived from Old Norse haugr "hill, mound".

Hautamäki Finnish
Finnish for "GRAVESHILL;" possibly cemetery or simply a person who lived near graves on a hill. From hauta ("grave") & mäki ("hill")

Haylock English
English surname of uncertain origin, possibly from the Old English given name Hægluc, a diminutive of the unrecorded name *Hægel, found in various place names... [more]

Hazlett English (British)
Topographic name for someone who lived by a hazel copse, Old English hæslett (a derivative of hæsel ‘hazel’). habitational name from Hazelhead or Hazlehead in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, derived from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ + heafod ‘head’, here in the sense of ‘hill’; also a topographic name of similar etymological origin.

Heaton English
Comes from "town (or farmstead) on a hill".... [more]

Hee Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
A Danish habitational name from any of several places named from a word meaning ‘shining’ or ‘clear’, referencing a river.... [more]

Heinmäe Estonian
Heinmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "hay hill".

Herndon Medieval English
The surname Herndon was first found in Bedfordshire (Old English: Bedanfordscir), located in Southeast-central England, formerly part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, where they held a family seat from ancient times... [more]

Heuvel Dutch
From Dutch meaning "hill".

Hietamäki Finnish
Derived from hieta ("fine-sand") & mäki ("hill").

Higashiosaka Japanese
Higashi means "east", o means "great, large", and saka means "hill, slope".

Higashiyama Japanese
Higashi means "east" and yama means "hill, mountain".

High English
A name for someone who lives in a high place, like a mountain or hill.

Hiller m German English Norse
The name Hiller has both German and English origins and is linguistically related to Norse:... [more]

Hillfair Ukrainian
A fair someone. One who does a fair thing. Hill is which lives on a hill, other meanings of a fine hill, good for agriculture, hillfair as a fair hill.

Hills English
Variant of Hill.

Hindle English
Habitational name from a place in the parish of Whalley, Lancashire, so called from the same first element + Old English hyll 'hill'.

Hingston English
The distribution of the Hingston surname appears to be based around the South Hams area of Devon. The English Place Name Society volumes for Devon give the best indication of the source of the name... [more]

Hiraoka Japanese
From Japanese 平 (hira) meaning "level, even, peaceful" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Hirasaka Japanese
Hira means "peace" and saka means "hill, slope".

Hirschberg German, Jewish
Derived from many places named Hirschberg in the states of Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, or the historic city of Jelenia Góra in southwestern Poland. It is composed of Middle High German hirz meaning "deer, stag" and berg meaning "hill, mountain"... [more]

Hisaka Japanese
Hi can mean "Japanese cypress" or "scarlet, dark red" and saka means "slope, hill".

Hiyama Japanese
From Japanese 檜, 桧 (hi) meaning "Japanese cypress" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Hoe English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a spur of a hill.

Hogan Norwegian
Anglicized form of the Norwegian surname Haugen (or Haugan), meaning "hill."

Hood English, Scottish, Irish
English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive hood, from Middle English hod(de), hood, hud ‘hood’. Some early examples with prepositions seem to be topographic names, referring to a place where there was a hood-shaped hill or a natural shelter or overhang, providing protection from the elements... [more]

Hora Czech
Czech word for hill or mountain

Horner English
1 English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land.... [more]

Hosoyama Japanese
Hoso means "thin, slender, fine, narrow" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Hough English
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cheshire and Derbyshire, so named from Old English hoh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’). This widespread surname is especially common in Lancashire... [more]

Howcroft English
Means "enclosed field on a hill". Derived from the words haugr "hill", of Norse origin, and croft "enclosed field"

Høyer Danish
A surname relatively common in Denmark, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning "mound, cairn, hill". Alternatively, meaning can be traced back to the old Germanic personal name Hucger, a compound consisting of hug- "heart, mind, spirit" and geirr "spear".

Hoyland English, Norwegian
English (South Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hoh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’. ... [more]

Hoyt English
Generally a topographical name for someone who lived on a hill or other high ground. As such Hoyt is related to words such as heights or high. Hoyt is also possibly a nickname for a tall, thin person where the original meaning is said to be "long stick".

Hügel German
From German meaning "hill".

Hugli German (Swiss)
Meaning: Little Hill

Huhtamäki Finnish
Derived from huhta (“woodland cleared for slash-and-burn cultivation”) +‎ mäki (“hill”).

Huller English
Topographical name for a 'dweller by a hill', deriving from the Old English pre 7th Century 'hyll' a hill, or in this instance 'atte hulle', at the hill.

Hultberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish Hult and berg "mountain, hill".

Huntington English
English: habitational name from any of several places so called, named with the genitive plural huntena of Old English hunta ‘hunter’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ or dun ‘hill’ (the forms in -ton and -don having become inextricably confused)... [more]

Ichioka Japanese
From Japanese 一 (ichi) meaning "one" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill".

Iiyama Japanese
Ii means "cooked grains" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Illopmägi Estonian
Illopmägi is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "iisop" meaning "hyssop", or "ilus" meaning "beautiful", and "mägi" meaning "mountain/hill".

Ilumäe Estonian
Ilumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "pretty/lovely hill/mountain".

Imaoka Japanese
From Japanese 今 (ima) meaning "now, present" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Imaruoka Japanese
I means "that one, Italy", maru means "round, circle", and oka means "hill, ridge".

Ingersoll Medieval English
habitational name from Inkersall in Derbyshire, recorded in the 13th century as Hinkershil(l) and Hinkreshill. The final element is Old English hyll ‘hill’. The first may be the Old Norse personal name Ingvarr or an Old English byname Hynkere meaning ‘limper’... [more]

Inusaka Japanese
Inu means "dog" and saka means "slope, hill".

Ioka Japanese
From Japanese 井 (i) meaning "well" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Irisaka Japanese
Iri means "enter, input" and saka means "slope, hill".

Iriyama Japanese
From 入 (iri) meaning "entry, input", and 山 (yama) meaning "hill, mountain".... [more]

Itzstein German
Topographic surname that originated from broad regions around the river Itz in Thuringia, Germany. The word "Stein" (German word for stone) historically was also used to describe castles on a hill or at a river, thus a possible meaning of the name is "castle at the river Itz".

Iwaoka Japanese
From Japanese 岩 (iwa) meaning "cliff, rocks" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Iwazaki Japanese
Variant of Iwasaki, meaning "stone slope, hill."

Iyama Japanese
I means "well, pit, minehaft" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Jürimäe Estonian
Jürimäe is an Estonian surname meaninh "Jüri's (masculine given name) hill/mountain".

Kageyama Japanese
From Japanese 影 or 景 (kage) meaning "shadow" or 蔭 (kage) meaning "shade, shelter" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kaljumäe Estonian
Kaljumäe is an Estonian surname meaning "cliff hill".

Kameoka Japanese
From Japanese 亀 (kame) meaning "turtle, tortoise" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Kamisaka Japanese
Kami can mean "god" or "above, upper, top" and saka means "hill, slope."

Kanaoka Japanese
Kana means "metal, money, gold" and oka means "hill, mound",

Kataoka Japanese
From Japanese 片 (kata) meaning "partial, one-sided" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Katsuyama Japanese
Katsu means "victory" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Keel English
English habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English cy ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjolr ‘ridge’... [more]

Kelm German
Germanized form of Polish Chelm ‘peak’, ‘hill’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed summit, or habitational name from a city in eastern Poland or any of various other places named with this word.

Kenmuir Scottish
Derived from one of several places named with Gaelic ceann mòr "big end" (of a feature such as a hill or loch).

Khil Russian
Russian spelling of Hill. A notable bearer was Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil (1934-2012).

Khoo Chinese (Hokkien)
Hokkien spellig of the surname Qiu. This Means a person who lived near a mound, dune or hill. This spelling is found amongst Hokkien and Hakka families in Southeast Asia

Kindem English
1 English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, of unknown etymology (probably a pre-English hill name, but the form is obscure).... [more]

Kingdon English
Habitational name from Higher Kingdon in Alverdiscott or from Kendon in North Bovey both in Devon... [more]

Kinslow English
habitational name from Kingslow in Worfield (Shropshire). The placename means "king's tumulus" from Old English cyning "king" (genitive cyninges) and hlaw "tumulus burial mound hill".

Kipps German
Topographical name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe 'edge', 'brink'.

Kirsimäe Estonian
Kirsimäe is an Estonian surname meaning "cherry hill".

Kishioka Japanese
formed with 岸 (Kishi, Gan) meaning "Beach" and 岡 (Oka, Kō) meaning "Mount; hill; knoll”. So the mean it could be interpreted as “Hill of the Beach” or “Beach Hill”

Kishiyama Japanese
From Japanese 岸 (kishi) meaning "beach, shore, bank" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kitaoka Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 岡 (oka) meaning "hill, ridge".

Kitayama Japanese
From Japanese 北 (kita) meaning "north" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Kivimägi Estonian
Kivimägi is an Estonian name meaning "stone mountain/hill".

Kivimäki Finnish
"Combined of Finnish words kivi (stone) and mäki (hill)"

Kiyosaka Japanese
Kiyo means "pure, clean" and saka means "slope, hill".

Knapke German
A relative of mine has said this surname means “over the hill” and that it is of German origin.... [more]

Knipe English
The lineage of the name Knipe begins with the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain. It is a result of when they lived on the peak of a hill or highland. The surname Knipe is primarily familiar in the regions of Lancashire and Westmoreland.... [more]

Knock English
Topographic name for someone living by a hill, from Middle English knocke "hill" (Old English cnoc).

Knodel German
dweller near a hilltop; descendant of Knut (hill, or white-haired); a lumpish, thickset person.

Knott English
Either from the Middle English personal name Knut, or denoting a person who lived "at the knot", which is the summit of a rocky hill.

Konda Telugu
Hindu name meaning ‘hill’ in Telugu.

Kõrgemäe Estonian
Kõrgemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "high hill/mountain".

Koriyama Japanese
Possibly from 氷 (kori, hyou) meaning "ice" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Krähenbühl German (Swiss)
Combination of German Krähen "crow" and Bühl "hill".

Kronberg German, Swedish
German habitational name from any of the places called Kronberg near Frankfurt in Hesse and in Bavaria from the elements krone "crown" and berg "mountain, hill". Swedish ornamental name from kron "crown" and berg "mountain hill".

Kronenberg German, German (Swiss)
Habitational name from a place called Kronenberg (there is one near Wuppertal) or possibly from any of the places called Kronberg (see Kronberg ) from German Krone "crown" and German Berg "mountain, hill".

Kruusmägi Estonian
Kruusmägi is an Estonian surname meaning "gravel mountain/hill".

Kullamäe Estonian
Kullamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "aurous hill/mountain".

Kullberg Swedish
Combination of Swedish kulle "hill" and berg "mountain".

Kurosaka Japanese
Kuro means "Black" and Saka means "Hill, Slope".

Laanemäe Estonian
Laanemäe is an Estonian surname meaning "wintergreen hill/mountain".

La Cotera Spanish
Spanish variant for Hill and/or someone living in a slope, A "cota" in Spanish.

Lättemäe Estonian
Lättemäe is an Estonian surname derived from "läte" meaning "spring" or "fountain" and "mäe" meaning "hill" and "mountain"; "spring mountain".

Lawton English
Habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlaw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’... [more]

Lehtomäki Finnish
Lehto means "grove" and Mäki means "hill" in Finnish. This type of surname (combination of two nature related words) is very common in Finland.

Liddiard English
From Celtic place names in England meaning "gray hill".

Liinamäe Estonian
Liinamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "straight hill"; derived from "liin" meaning "straight/line" and "mäe" meaning "hill/mountain".

Liivamäe Estonian
Liivamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "sandy hill/mountain".

Lindenberg German, Jewish, Dutch
As a German and Jewish name, it is derived from any of numerous places called Lindenberg in Germany, composed of Middle High German linde meaning "lime tree" and berg meaning "mountain, hill"... [more]

Lindmäe Estonian
Lindmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "bird mountain/hill".

Loudon Scottish, English (Canadian)
This surname is Scottish, although also recorded in England. It is believed to be locational from the village of Loudoun, in the district of Cunningham, in the county of Ayrshire. The placename is composed of the Northern English word "low", meaning a flame or beacon, itself from the pre 7th century Norse word "loge", plus the Gaelic "doun", meaning a hill... [more]

Løvaas Norwegian
Ultimately derived from Old Norse lauf "leaf, foliage" and áss "hill, ridge". Taken from any of the many farms in Norway named Løvaas,

Lowes English
Patronymic from of Low derived from Middle English lowe meaning "hill, mound".

Ludlow English
Habitational name from a place in Shropshire, so named from the Old English river name Hlude (from hlud 'loud', 'roaring') referring to the Teme river + hlaw 'hill'.

Mäe Estonian
Mäe is an Estonian surname meaning "hill".

Mäehans Estonian
Mäehans is an Estonian surname, a corruption meaning "mountain/hill city".

Mäekalle Estonian
Mäekalle is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain slope".

Mäekivi Estonian
Mäekivi is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain stone".

Mäeloog Estonian
Mäeloog is an Estonian surname meaning "hill windrow".

Mäemets Estonian
Mäemets is an Estonian surname meaning "hill forest".

Mäeorg Estonian
Mäeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill glen".

Mäeots Estonian
Mäeots is an Estonian surname meaning "hill cusp/tip".

Mäepea Estonian
Mäepea is an Estonian surname meaning "hill head" ("top of the hill").

Mäepõld Estonian
Mäepõld is an Estonian surname meaning "hill/mountain field".

Mäesalu Estonian
Mäesalu is an Estonian surname meaning "hill grove".

Mäetalu Estonian
Mäetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill farmstead".

Mäki Finnish
Finnish surname from the word mäki meaning "hill".

Makioka Japanese
Maki means "shepherd" and oka means "hill, mound".

Mallows English
From Anglo-Saxon origins, meaning "The cross or mark on the hill". This surname is taken from the location 'Mallows Green' in England.

Manchester English
Habitational name from the city in northwestern England, formerly part of Lancashire. This is so called from Mamucio (an ancient British name containing the element mammā "breast", and meaning "breast-shaped hill") combined with Old English ceaster "Roman fort or walled city" (Latin castra "legionary camp").

Mändmäe Estonian
Mändmäe is an Estonian surname meaning "pine hill".

Marjamäe Estonian
Marjamäe is an Estonian surname meaning "berry hill/mountain."

Marlborough English
From the name of the market town and civil parish of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England, derived from the Old English given name Mǣrla and beorg meaning "hill, mound".

Masaoka Japanese
Masa means "right, proper" and oka means "hill, mound".

Matsuyama Japanese
From Japanese 松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Matten Flemish
One possibility of origin is of the French word motte which means a hill or mound. to this were added several tiny suffix of -et, and -ot, to give motet or motton meaning "small motte" or "son of motte" or to describe one who lived for a place- mottier.

Meremäe Estonian
Meremäe is an Estonian surname meaning "sea hill".

Michiyama Japanese
Michi means "path" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Mineyama Japanese
Mine means "peak" and yama means "mountain, hill".

Miramon French
MIRAMON is a French name with Spanish origins. ... [more]

Miyama Japanese
From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 間 (ma) meaning "among, between". It can also be formed from 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful" or 深 (mi) meaning "deep, profound" and 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Miyaoka Japanese
From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 岡 (oka) meaning "ridge, hill".

Mizuoka Japanese
Mizu means "water" and oka means "hill, ridge".

Mizuyama Japanese
Mizu means "water" and yama means "hill, mountain".

Momiyama Japanese
From 樅 (momi) meaning "fir tree" or 籾 (momi) "unhulled rice", combined with 山 (yama) meaning "mountain, hill".

Moncrief Scottish
Scottish: habitational name from Moncreiff Hill near Perth, so called from Gaelic monadh ‘hill’ + craoibhe, genitive of craobh ‘tree’.

Moncrieffe Scottish
Clan Moncreiffe is a Scottish clan. The name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic Monadh croibhe which means "Hill of the sacred bough". The plant badge of Clan Moncreiffe is the oak, this presumably comes from the sacred tree.... [more]

Monsivais Spanish
Hispanic (Mexico; Monsiváis): Perhaps A Topographic Name Derived From Latin Mons Silvaticus ‘Wooded Mountain’ Or A Habitational Name From Monsivalls A Hill In Ribagorza In Huesca Province (Spain) Named From Latin Monte Ipsa Vallis ‘Mount Of The Valley’.

Montalto Italian, Portuguese
Habitational name from any of various places called Montalto or Montaldo especially Montalto Uffugo in Cosenza province in Italy or from a place in Portugal called Montalto from monte "hill" and alto "high" (from Latin altus).

Montalvo Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Montalvo is a habitational Portuguese and Spanish surname that originated in the medieval period. It comes from the Spanish words monte, meaning "mount", and albo, meaning "white". The name was often given to families who lived near or on a white mountain or hill, and can be interpreted as "white mountain".

Monteith Scottish
From the name of the district of Menteith in south Perthshire, Scotland, derived from Gaelic monadh meaning "hill pasture" combined with the Scottish river name Teith. A famous bearer was the Canadian actor and musician Cory Monteith (1982-2013), who played Finn Hudson on the American television series Glee (2009-2015).

Montenegro Spanish, Portuguese
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in Spain and Portugal named Montenegro, from Spanish and Portuguese monte meaning "mountain, hill" and negro meaning "black".

Montezuma Spanish (Latin American)
Derived from the word monte meaning "hill". Most frequently used in Panama.

Montfort Medieval French (Rare)
Habitational name from any of numerous places called Montfort from Old French mont "hill" and fort "strong impregnable"

Montixi Italian
Means "small mountain, hill".