The Hild surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,779 people carried this name — #16,228 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 166,700 people counted. That is down 5% from 1,872 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 588 people named Hild.
22 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 38 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
61 people named Hild live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 50 people named Hild live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
65 people named Hild is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Hild in American newspapers,
1907–1910.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 101,408 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Hild,
with a public archive behind them.
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József Hild 1789–1867 · architect -
János Hild 1759–1811 · architect
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Károly Hild 1812–1889 · architect
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Joseph Antoine Hild 1845–1914 · classical philologist
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Viktor Hild 1855–1929 · archivist
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Adolf Hild 1883–1954 · archaeologist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hild.
- Hieronimus 251 · U.S. census
- Higel 168 · U.S. census
- Hilaire 1,682 · U.S. census
- Hilal 339 · U.S. census
- Hilary 120 · U.S. census
- Hilbert 6,077 · U.S. census
- Hilde 508 · U.S. census
- Hildebrand 11,687 · U.S. census
- Hildenbrand 903 · U.S. census
- Hilger 2,032 · U.S. census
- Hill 434,827 · U.S. census
- Hillaire 188 · U.S. census
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