Southern English: topographic name for someone living by a
hill. See Hill 1.German: metronymic from Hille, a
pet form of the female personal name Hildegund (see
Hilke).North German, Frisian, and Dutch: from a masculine
personal beginning with the Germanic element hild ‘strife’,
‘battle’.German: variant of Hüller (see Huller).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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