What nationality does the name hill come from?

Question

What nationality does the name hill come from?

Answer 1

england

Answer 2

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

Hill Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: extremely common and widely distributed topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, Middle English hill (Old English hyll).

English: from the medieval personal name Hill, a short form of Hilary (see Hillary) or of a Germanic (male or female) compound name with the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.

German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing Germanic hild as the first element.

Jewish (American): Anglicized form of various Jewish names of similar sound or meaning.

English translation of Finnish Mäki (‘hill’), or of any of various other names formed with this element, such as Mäkinen, Heinämaki, Kivimäki.

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