I love the idea of passing on family surnames to children, but unfortunately my maiden name is just not usable as a first name (honestly, not even a middle). My maiden name means “hill dweller” and I would love to find a name with a similar meaning to honor my maiden name. Does anyone know of any names with the meaning hill dweller, hill, or anything similar? Any/all suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! 
[name_u]Bryn[/name_u] means hill in Welsh!
[name_u]Dale[/name_u]
[name_u]Winslow[/name_u]
[name_m]Brent[/name_m]
Ruba
[name_m]Brandon[/name_m]
[name_u]Odell[/name_u]
[name_m]Weldon[/name_m]
Basically, a lot of names ending in -don have hill meanings. [name_m]Lyndon[/name_m], [name_m]Landon[/name_m], Roydon, [name_m]Eldon[/name_m] etc.
[name_m]Berg[/name_m]
[name_m]Bergen[/name_m]
[name_m]Berger[/name_m]
[name_m]Boden[/name_m]
[name_m]Brandon[/name_m]
[name_u]Bryn[/name_u]
[name_m]Doane[/name_m]
[name_m]Eldon[/name_m]
[name_u]Embry[/name_u]
[name_m]Galil[/name_m]
[name_m]Gordon[/name_m]
[name_m]Hadden[/name_m]
[name_m]Hamilton[/name_m]
[name_m]Hill[/name_m]
[name_m]Howe[/name_m]
[name_m]Hurst[/name_m]
[name_m]Kipp[/name_m]
[name_m]Knox[/name_m]
[name_m]Landon[/name_m]
[name_m]Ludlow[/name_m]
[name_m]Lyndon[/name_m]
[name_m]Marvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Montague[/name_m]
[name_m]Onslow[/name_m]
[name_m]Paden[/name_m]
[name_m]Powhatan[/name_m]
[name_m]Royden[/name_m]
[name_u]Tully[/name_u]
I made a list for this!
(taken from behindthename, so nameberry might show something different)
[name_m]Montague[/name_m] - pointy hill
[name_m]Brandon[/name_m] - hill covered in broom
[name_m]Brent[/name_m] - hill
[name_m]Brian[/name_m] - hill
[name_u]Bryn[/name_u]/[name_f]Brynn[/name_f] - hill
[name_m]Brynmor[/name_m] - great hill
[name_m]Eldon[/name_m] - [name_f]Ella[/name_f]'s hill
[name_m]Hamilton[/name_m] - crooked hill
Haran - hill or mountain
[name_f]Harlow[/name_f] - army hill or rocky hill
[name_u]Hayden[/name_u] - hay valley or hay hill
[name_m]Knox[/name_m] - round hill
[name_m]Landon[/name_m] - long hill
[name_m]Lyndon[/name_m] - lime tree hill
[name_u]Odell[/name_u] - woad hill
Orrell - ore hill
Roydon - rye hill
Royle - rye hill
Ruba - hill
Talfryn - high hill
Treveltan - homestead on the hill
[name_m]Wardell[/name_m] - watch hill
[name_m]Weldon[/name_m] - hill near a spring
[name_u]Winslow[/name_u] - hill belonging to wine
Thanks for all the suggestions!
I don’t know any that specifically mean hill or hill dweller but one way to honor it (well, one nerdy way to honor it) would be any Hobbit name from JRR Tolkien’s work since the Hobbits are hill dwellers. I wouldn’t suggest using Bilbo, although many others are usable. :lol:
Haha We always joke that we are a family of Hobbits because of that reason.
“Hrvat” means hill dwellers in Croatian.
This is the root word and many variations were used for many centuries.