Dix

Dix is the 3,738th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,240 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,300.

By the numbers

People: 9,240
Rank: 3,738th
How common: 1 in 32,300
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Dick + the patronymic suffix.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dix described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.6%
Black, not Hispanic 17.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Dix

Otto Dix (1891–1969)German painter and printmaker
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887)American author and social reformer
Richard Dix (1893–1949)American actor
Walter Dix (born 1986)American sprinter
John Adams Dix (1798–1879)Union Army General
William Chatterton Dix (1837–1898)British hymnwriter and writer

People named Dix with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dix

Dixon
Dixson

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.