Hillenburg
# Hillenburg

Hillenburg is a German surname. It may have originated as a variant spelling of Hallenberg, a habitational surname referring to Hallenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Variant spellings of the surname include Hellenberg. The 2010 United States Census found 555 people with the surname Hillenburg, making it the 39,607th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 519 people (39,824th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, roughly 95% of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white, and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Notable people with the surname include:

* Andy Hillenburg (born 1963), American racecar driver
* Rolf Kalmuczak (1938–2007), German crime novelist who sometimes used the pen name Martin Hillenburg
* Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator who created the SpongeBob SquarePants series
